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

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Should I still "replace conditional with polymorphism" if the condition is from dynamic load...

, then it is usually a good idea to implement this using neither conditionals nor polymorphism. … Moreover, you wrote that your original example is "bad", implying that "replacing conditional by polymorphism" would be "good". …
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How to retain the concrete type when writing base-class-oriented code?

JohnWu's approach of using templates is fine. Alternatively, instead of avoiding casts at any price, one could encapsulate them at a single place inside the BookSorter class, implemented in terms of a …
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Separating business logic from data tempts me to use instanceof

One can separate data from behaviour and still use object oriented means and polymorphism. …
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Is ad-hoc polymorphism a good practice in functional programming?

It seems to be a common cargo cult today to ask if something is "a good practice". Usually, this is the wrong question, since in programming there is almost nothing "good" or "bad" per se - it always …
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How would dispatch work in the Wizards and Warriors "rulebook"?

Your confusion comes from the fact Eric did not say much about the actual execution model (or evaluation model) for his proposed system. He leaves this to some degree "as an exercise to the reader". I …
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Are objects that can pass more than one IS-A test really polymorphic?

You are confused because you think of inheritance and polymorphism as separate concepts. … Another example is "static polymorphism" in C++ template meta programming, or polymorphic functions in Python, like shown here. …
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How to change this implementation to cover drawbacks of Mediator Design Pattern here

I think I understand what you are after, but first note class FontDialogDirector is essentially a container for a specific list of Widgets, it is actually the coded definition of which Widgets your di …
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GUI applicaton states and polymorphism

One can use MVP (Model View Presenter) here. This decouples the view from the view's logic and is typically used to make views exchangable, but there is no reason why it cannot also be used to exchang …
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Unused function parameters and polymorphism

Does this violate contemporary design principles? No. Is there really a problem with interface members having parameters that are used by some implementations, but ignored by others? Not by …
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How to use OO Design to Refactor a Library with Functions that are specific Product-aware

Somewhere in your code you have to store the specifics of each product. In your example, the natural place for this seems to be the Specs class, since I guess it is something like the "configuration" …
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Inheritance in imperative programming

I think the easiest way to understand this is by looking at a simple example in C: the qsort function of the standard C library. As a user of that lib, you can provide an arbitrary comparison function …
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Different scoring algorithms for different competition elements

However, that only makes sense if I create a different class for each different element, which doesn't seem right To me, this feels perfectly right, since, it is just an application of the classi …
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Refactoring - Utility classes behavior under a common interface

it can have a private constructor and expose only static methods Yes, it can, but there is no technical need for. So (besides some other good suggestions here) you should also consider the most s …
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