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Paremetric Diversions Revisited

OK, I admit it. After writing about H.S. Lahman’s talk on invariants and parametric polymorphism, I wanted to see what the rest of the world thinks parametric polymorphism is (and isn’t). The Wikipedia entry for polymorphism states, “polymorphism is the … Continue reading

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Parametric polymorphic–or driving behavior with data

At Software Development Best Practices 2005 I attended as many design and architecture talks as I could fit in. I enjoyed H.S. Lahman‘s talk on Invariants and Parametricpolymorphicm. His talk illustrated how instead of abusing inheritance, you can use data … Continue reading

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