Dynamic binding (aka dynamic dispatch) is the process of mapping a message to a specific piece of code (method) at runtime.
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How are subclasses of an interface get called
This is a question that has been bothering me for a while.
In frameworks like Jersey we have interface(s) that we can subclass to add some functionality to our program. for example to add request filtering in a RESt application we can implement…
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How is dynamic binding implemented in Java?
I am aware that in C++, there is a virtual pointer in each instance pointing to a virtual table. But how is dynamic binding implemented in Java?
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Java - Multiple visitor patterns for the same class structure
So I have a class structure of expressions, composed by, Binary Expressions, Unary Expressions, all abstract, these expanding into their specific concrete classes of operations such as Add, Sub, Mul, Not, etc... Like such.
I want to create 2…
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How to call a method with dynamic dispatch (when method is part of a Module), in Ruby?
In Ruby language, I have to call dynamically a method that belong to a Module, having method name as a stored string (say: "ModuleName::Submodule:methodName")
Let's consider this case:
module Dialogs
def paperino(param)
puts "paperino.…
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Is there a language allowing dynamic binding for arguments?
Is there a language allowing a supertype A defining a method useFoo (Foo foo) such as B, derivated from A defining a method useFoo(Bar bar), (Bar is derivated from Foo), when using B as a A with a Foo that is a Bar, it will run the most specialised…
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OSX: Dynamically binding a dylib with the loading executable
I'm loading a dylib from an OSX executable using dlopen. I would like the dylib to resolve it's symbols by binding back with the original executable. Is this possible?
Note that the main executable will always have a known name, i.e. I don't need to…
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C++ Static & Dynamic Binding behaviour
I understand the difference between static and dynamic binding in the sense that method calls are determined at compile time for static binding - whereas method calls are determined at run time for dynamic binding.
One thing I don't get is why you…
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Are base calls dynamically bound in c#?
Just out of curiosity: are calls using the base keyword in C# dynamically bound (i.e. is it a polymorphic call)?
Consider the following example:
public class A
{
public virtual void WriteSomething()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello from…
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passing derived object as base class reference parameter
This examples shows a derived class object being passed to a function which takes reference to base class as the parameter. Member function g(int) in the derived class hides the g(float) in the base class. I understand that and my question is not…
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Is all dynamic binding a kind of polymorphism?
Is all dynamic binding considered to be polymorphism? Specifically, I'm talking about Java. If not, please explain both terms.
What I know: not all inheritance is polymorphism but inheritance is used in all polymorphism.
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ASP.NET MVC dynamically bind editor template
Is it possible to dynamically add an Editor Template to my view, after a button is clicked, for example?
At the moment I'm doing this in my main view to bind a list of ObjectA objects to my model (inside a form):
@Html.EditorFor(x => x.ObjectA)
and…
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Overridden methods and dynamic binding
Is there a possibility for an overridden method to be resolved statically?
And what is the relation between Invoke virtual and dynamic binding? Are all invoke virtual methods dynamically bound?
class Dynamic
{
public void display()
{
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Java static and dynamic binding, upcast, overloading mixed together
Let's say that we have the following code
class TestEqual{
public boolean equals(TestEqual other ) {
System.out.println( "In equals from TestEqual" ); return false;
}
public static void main( String [] args ) {
Object t1 = new…
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How can an object type be unknown at compile time?
I am currently learning about dynamic binding and virtual functions. This is from Accelerated C++, chapter 13:
[...] We want to make that decision at run time. That is, we want the
system to run the right function based on the actual type of the
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Function name and dynamic binding in Common Lisp
I'm reading Peter Norvig's Paradigms of AI. In chapter 6.2, the author uses code like below (not the original code, I picked out the troubling part):
Code Snippet:
(progv '(op arg) '(1+ 1)
(eval '(op arg)))
As the author's original intent, this…
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