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overloading |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Overload \O`ver*load"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overloaded}; p. pr & vb n. {Overloading}.] [Cf. {Overlade}.] To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: overloading(Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either as a {monadic} operator to negate an expression, or as a {dyadic} operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or {floating-point} numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc {polymorphism}. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. {C++}'s {class} system and the {functional programming} language {Haskell}'s {type class}es. (1995-04-30)
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