polymorphism w/out signatures?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth rook_5150 at yahoo.com (Bryan Castillo):
| Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<donn-0FC5DB.15041506052004 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>...
...
|> On the other hand, if you want to support a string as an single
|> value instead of a list or tuple of values, then you're not
|> really talking about polymorphism here anyway.  When a function
|> decides to support various unrelated types for a particular
|> parameter, I don't know what you call that, but it isn't
|> polymorphism in any useful sense.
|
| The original poster is talking about function/method overloading as
| you have in C++ or Java.

I don't think we can reasonably call anything function overloading
in Python, but at any rate, whatever you call it, it isn't polymorphism.

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com