English Explanatory Dictionary

parametric polymorphism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A way to make a computer language more expressive, while maintaining full static type safety, by allowing a function or a data type to be written generically so that it can handle values identically without depending on their type.

Word forms

parametric polymorphism parametric polymorphisms

Etymology

Coined by British computer scientist Christopher Strachey in 1967.

Related words

generic programming Hindley-Milner type system
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