In computer science, polymorphism is a programming language feature that allows values of different data types to be handled using a uniform interface.
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Initializing characters in a visual novel game
I am making a visual novel game and I was wondering is there a better way of setting character attributes and initializing than the way that I have done down below. As you can see I did an abstract ...
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Accessing the Stack Exchange API
Part of a project I'm getting started on requires access to the Stack Exchange API for certain data, as a result I built a .NET implementation to interact with it.
The implementation is pretty ...
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Dependency problem in C#, through polymorphism, and appropriate design pattern
I'm currently working on a project which involves EntityFramework with a (very) rich model (lots of inheritance). I'm currently facing a problem, quite interesting in my opinion.
My model is ...
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Find the appropriate transformer for an abstract value
I want to get rid of the following code duplication within the MyFacadeBean. Consider the following situation:
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Polymorphic TLV serialization
Inspired by this question I decided to write an alternative that uses polymorhphism and a Factory pattern. The code works for the subset of implemented types, namely ...
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Polymorphically processing 2 & 3 dimensional objects
It seems there are a lot of "empty containers" (I do not know the correct, technical term) with regards to multiple levels of abstract classes and functional interfaces with little or no code. Is ...
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Sorting polymorphic classes
I'm learning from "Jumping into C++" by Alex Allain (sample chapter and TOC) and solved the first problem in Chapter 26 "Inheritance and Polymorphism".
I'm especially concerned about my use of ...
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Check if JavaScript input is empty?
Having a general utility function to see if the input is empty makes sense to me. Empty means different things depends on the type. Just spent ~5 minutes writing this one up, so I'm sure it's missing ...
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Google reCAPTCHA Validator: Iteration II
This is a follow-up to the other post I made (less than an hour ago) about my Google reCAPTCHA C# implementation: Google reCAPTCHA Validator
This adds support for error messages, so that you can ...
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Google reCAPTCHA Validator
This entire class came out of a chat discussion, and I'm curious on how it looks. (This is like literally 30 minutes of development time.)
The idea is to allow very easy, quick implementations of ...
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Implementing Dynamic Network Message Handling (Part II)
This is an iterative review request of this other question I posted.
As a follow up to that previous question, I changed the pattern completely and I went to an events-based approach, which might be ...
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Implementing Dynamic Network Message Handling
I'm trying to handle network messages in a dynamic, and effective way, though I feel I've overthought it again. As of now, I have a very structured approach, but it feels as if it's a lot of overhead ...
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Conversion calculator using polymorphism and Swing
This is my first attempt at a program (outside of school) and I was trying to implement and learn polymorphism on a conversion calculator for volumes and weights.
I found myself using long ...
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Polymorphic components for graphics and program state
I asked this question on StackOverflow, got some answers, most notably a link to this one, and basing on that I've implemented this:
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Efficient compile-time directed graph
During my research in Rigid Body Dynamics, (where Contact Graphs are used to solve the contact problem) I came across the question if it is possible to define at compile time a directed graph (class) ...
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Vehicle Running Cost calculator
I'm making a road tax data calculator/parser for practice. I do this because I want to learn more about OOP and arrays with its functionality.
On my previous post, i made this same application but ...
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Polymorphic animals speak their name and make a noise
I'm new to GNU Smalltalk. I'd like to port a script I've written in Ruby, Scala, CoffeeScript, and several others. It's the one I use to try to learn the classic OOP concepts of abstract classes, ...
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Text-based Tetris game with CRTP - follow-up
Previous question:
Text-based Tetris game - follow-up - final
Summary of improvements:
Implementation of a Drawable class
Separate functionality, input moves to ...
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Inserting and displaying books
I'm trying to write a program where you can insert and display some books (without using a database).
For doing this, I use three classes:
Book - is the base ...
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Transformation of abstract models
In one of my recent projects I faced the problem of transforming an abstract class into another abstract class. The classes were structured like this and are part of an api for questionnaires:
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Image Processing Pipeline
I'm currently toying around with some Computer Vision algorithms and always wanted to learn more about templates, so I came up with the idea to build a templated Image Processing Pipeline.
I want the ...
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Single inheritance polymorphism
I am learning about polymorphism in C++ and decided to implement an example. Is there anything I need to fix in my code? This compiles and runs.
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Type dispatch based on runtime value
Suppose we're implementing an interpreter for the bytecode of some stack machine. Let every element of the stack be a Word8, and let the stack be represented by a ...
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Interface-based polymorphic collection
Here is a small C++11 utility collection to store any object that satisfies a given interface. Only the basic concepts are provided, I did not try to create a full collection:
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Changing the type of an object inside a method?
First off, this is not my code. I'm curious what everyone thinks about changing the type of an object inside of a method then modifying the properties of the cast type. I wanted to use composition to ...
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Polymorphic (owned) reference wrapper for class hierarchies
Rationale: I often have the requirement to own object instances, while preserving polymorphic behavior (i.e. own the object and hold it by pointer, or reference).
This is usually expressed as a ...
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Static Multilevel Inheritance with CRTP (Fast Intrusive Pointers)
I wanted to have a way to be able to static_cast to the proper derived type pointer of a base class to simulate a virtual call. Here the virtual call is for a ...
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Is this a meaningful Intrusive Pointer Class?
Is this intrusive pointer implementation correct? I tried to use the CRTP Pattern to avoid a virtual destructor in my class ReferenceCounting which provides the ...
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Variadic templates and pointers to member functions to achieve a named-parameters interface in C++
I studied a bit and packed all the suggestions that I received here: Fluent interface and polymorphism and I came up with this:
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Fluent interface and polymorphism for building a scene with shapes
I would like to improve the interfaces of some polymorphic classes going from positional to named parameters and I came up with the fluent interface.
The following is the most clean, compact and ...
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Avoiding casts in abstract types
I asked this question on Stack Overflow and in the comments someone had this to say.
In a proper design, you should almost never have to do a dynamic_cast, even if it's hidden inside some nice ...
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Concept based polymorphism
I have a concept based polymorphism example listed below. I allow the user to provide any type that implements the draw method and then I add it into a vector of ...
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Understanding polymorphism in Python
I feel like I don't understand how polymorphism works in Python. Here is something I put together.
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designing application using polymorphism
I have created a polymorphic system, but I don't know whether this is the correct way of doing it. Am I abusing Polymorphism here? Here is the code:
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Very simple events implementation
I've been thinking about implementing events and wrote some abstract code:
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Null Object pattern with simple class hierarchy
I have a simple two-class hierarchy to represent U.S. ZIP (12345) and ZIP+4 (12345-1234) codes. To allow clients to allow both types for a field/parameter or restrict it to one type or the other, the ...
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Hardware resource Open/Close methods
So I'm making a program that is a serial port wedge. In other words I want it to listen to a serial port. If data comes in, wait a given amount of time, then play a sound and finally send the data ...
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Understanding interface with animal classes
I made this small program to demonstrate to myself an example of interface. I wanted to confirm whether it is correct and if there is anything more I should know about interfaces other than the ...
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Is this the proper way to find the subclass of a polymorphic superclass?
I came across polymorphism in the book that I'm reading and decided to do a little experiment. Essentially what I did was to create a base class called Asset and ...
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Refactoring to a polymorphic association
I'm running into an issue while playing around with some models in a Rails app. Namely issues of the polymorphic variety. I think I may have solved it, more or less looking for an approval.
I have ...
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Design dilemma: extensibility vs simplicity
Here is my problem abstracted to Bird classes. I know that number of Birds will increase on the future and new behaviors might ...
