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as with a lot of js terminology, it's been re-appropirated: http://mrale.ph/blog/2015/01/11/whats-up-with-monomorphism.html http://mrale.ph/blog/2015/01/11/wha
by leeoniya 9y ago
as with a lot of js terminology, it's been re-appropirated:
http://mrale.ph/blog/2015/01/11/whats-up-with-monomorphism.html http://mrale.ph/blog/2015/01/11/whats-up-with-monomorphism.h...
also, polyfill (hip) === shim (no longer hip)
- nickfargo 9y agoThe term is not merely a recent appropriation. Parametric polymorphism is a concept from functional programming and formal type theory, with application far beyond just JavaScript.
- leeoniya 9y agotbh, polymorphism makes more sense to me in the parametric definition [in the context of weak types/signatures] than in the standard oop def.