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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:34:52 am | by SamJansen | Revert |
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[ML] and [Haskell] have polymorphic typing.
In [C] you can approximate polymophic typing with __void__ pointer arguments, which will take pointers to any type. In [Java] and [C++] approximate polymorphic typing by using Object classes, which all objects belong to. But in both cases you lose strong type checking, so the quality of your code suffers.
+''It should be noted here that [C++] has templates, which allow strong type checking with PolymorphicTypes. These are often called GenericTypes. -- SamJansen''
!!!An Example
This is Glyn defining a binary tree type on his [Ocaml] interpreter:
