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Old 03-31-2005, 07:07 PM   #8 (permalink)
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An operation that has different meanings depending on which object it is bound to at run-time is called a polymorphic operation. Polymorphism is the ability of objects of different classes related by inheritance to respond differently to the same member function caller.
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