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From: grover%brahmand@Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
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Subject: Re: "Ad Hoc Polymorphism" -- I'm Quoting Someone Else
Keywords: ad hoc polymorphism, reference to original use
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Date: 9 Jan 90 22:35:10 GMT
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In article <646@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) writes:
>Jim Adcock has admonished me as follows:
>
>	"Can you please choose some other descriptor rather than "ad
>	hoc polymorphism" ???  This term is not descriptive, is being
>	applied to a technique that is certainly *not* "ad hoc," and
>	sounds like it is intended to be prejudicial terminology --
>	which I'm sure was not your intent!"

Some authors term the Ada-style overloading of functions as "ad-hoc
polymorphism". I do not have a reference handy, but I remember a paper by
Burstall and Lampson on Pebble mention this. 


Vinod Grover