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Polymorphism and Dynamic Binding


  • Polymorphism: One piece of code works with all shape objects.
  • Dynamic binding: How polymorphism is implemented
  • Take previous Shape class hierarchy 
    • remove inheritance 
    • remove general and abstract class Shape 

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  1. JvkNovember 2, 2015 at 12:27 AM

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  2. GulzarAugust 1, 2016 at 8:29 AM

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