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From: dbm@alice.UUCP (David MacQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: "Ad Hoc Polymorphism" -- I'm Quoting Someone Else
Keywords: ad hoc polymorphism, reference to original use
Message-ID: <10322@alice.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 90 03:24:03 GMT
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Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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The phrase "ad hoc polymorphism" was coined by Christopher Strachey in
course notes for a Copenhagen summer school in 1967.  He used the phrase
to refer to conventional overloading of operator names in contrast to
"parametric polymorphism", by which he meant roughly the type of polymorphism
used in ML and the second order lambda calculus.