Depends what you mean by "static/dynamic dispatch". Strictly speaking, the only example of static dispatch is when the called function is known at compile time.

Depends what you mean by "static/dynamic dispatch". Strictly speaking, the only example of static dispatch is when the called function is known at compile time. Dynamic dispatch allows selection of the function being called at runtime; either via inheritance (the called method depends on the exact subclass of the object), or via typeclasses (the called method depends on the typeclass passed along with the values - e.g. the addition typeclass will be different for a list of ints and a list of matrices).