{"id":124,"date":"2001-04-17T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-17T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:42:11","slug":"javaworld-article-on-polymorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"JavaWorld article on polymorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.javaworld.com\/javaworld\/jw-04-2001\/jw-0413-polymorph.html\">\"Reveal the magic behind subtype polymorphism\"<\/a> is a decent article on polymorphism.<\/p>\n<p>It talks about the four types of polymorphism: coercion, overloading, parametric, and inclusion (sub-type). Most OO developers are comfortable and familiar with the first two. Since the article is java focused, it can't really give example of parametric polymorphism (templates in C++), but it still talks about the principals of this type of polymorphism.<\/p>\n<p>The last type for polymorphism, inclusion, s the one that is the least understood. In fact, it's the one that I always ask about when interviewing an OO programmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Reveal the magic behind subtype polymorphism\" is a decent article on polymorphism. It talks about the four types of polymorphism: coercion, overloading, parametric, and inclusion (sub-type). Most OO developers are comfortable and familiar with the first two. Since the article is java focused, it can't <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=124\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}