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Polymorphism is about using objects of a type uniformly, regardless of their subtype.

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Is method overloading anything more than syntactic sugar?

The term syntactic sugar typically refers to cases where the feature is defined by a substitution. The language doesn't define what a feature does, instead it defines that it is exactly equivalent to …
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How do you make a GUI for a polymorphic class?

You can use a visitor pattern: interface QuestionVisitor { void multipleChoice(MultipleChoice); void textBox(TextBox); ... } interface Question { void visit(QuestionVisitor); } clas …
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How do you use duck typing in javascript without always checking for properties and methods?

I know I could just not check, but tracking down javascript run time errors can be a nightmare since they don't always happen where the error is actually occurring in the code. Indeed, the ty …
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