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From: grover@brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Enumerated data types
Keywords: C, Pascal, design, Algol68
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Date: 28 Aug 90 05:41:46 GMT
References: <1990Aug23.134826.2865@forwiss.uni-passau.de> <3621@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <3621@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>Algol 68 was the first language I met that allowed overloading, but from
>the published discussions of the Algol 68 committee overloading was already
>a well known idea then.  Anyone know where it first showed up?  ...

I believe that Christopher Strachey used the term "ad hoc polymorphism" to
refer to a breed of overloading. I *think* that was before Algol 68. 

Vinod Grover
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