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Exploring Polymorphism in PHP
This is one of those weird programming terms that I never bothered to learn, but discovered that I had already been using for a long time.
Polymorphism is an object-oriented programming design pattern. When you create an object, you have one or more methods (or functions) that each have a predefined purpose, each being a tidy, reusable black of code that you can use over and over again. The concept of polymorphism allows you to have one reusable block of code, i.e., a function, and have another reusable block of code that implements the same functionality of the other block verbatim, in addition to extending that functionality in some way.
Hi, I'm a Mac. Hi, I'm a PC... is Really Roadrunner vs. Coyote
Smashing! Brilliant!
Charles Miller points out how Apple's TV ads bear a striking resemblance to the plot of the class Roadrunner vs. Coyote cartoons.
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