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Polymorphic identifiers: uniform resource access in objective-smalltalk

Marcel Weiher, Robert Hirschfeld

DOI 10.1145/2508168.2508169 dblp BibTeX

Abstract

In object-oriented programming, polymorphic dispatch of operations decouples clients from specific providers of services and allows implementations to be modified or substituted without affecting clients.

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