overloading
<language> (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to
represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a
monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the
difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either
integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc
polymorphism.
User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming
languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language
Haskell's type classes.
(1995-04-30)
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