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On 30/4/07 07:58, in article x83lepvaonj0$.8nqcwcdg7ykd.dlg@40tude.net,
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:36:53 +0100, (see below) wrote:
> 
>> On 29/4/07 18:48, in article 1n38bsd8xx0uc$.1eo1arncmwvkn.dlg@40tude.net,
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> What about "polymorphism"? It means exactly the opposite to what its
>>> translation suggests (many-formed/shaped).
>> 
>> You have lost me. It means exactly what it says.
> 
> But there is only one form (~interface) of a polymorphic thing. Substance
> (~implementation) is different. They should probably take "convergent"
> instead.

Precisely: the "substance" (you are beginning to sound
like a mediaeval scholastic theologian) is polymorphic.

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Bill Findlay
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