Object-Oriented Programming A Unified Foundation

by Luea Cardelli Ever since Strachey''s work in the 1960''s, polymorphism has been classified into the parametric and overloading varieties. Parametric polymorphism has been the subject of extensive study for over two decades. Overloading, on the other hand, has often been considered too ad hoc to deserve much attention even though it has been, in some form, an ingredient of virtually every progra...