I am hoping to find a hint (preferably by good example) for implementing dynamic dispatch in C. I am learning C and as practice, I want to translate from Java to C using dynamic dispatch virtual m...

Programs written in, for example, Java rely a lot on dynamic dispatch. How are such programs expressed in functional languages such as Haskell? In other words, what is the Haskell way of expressi...

I come from Ruby, and have sort of adopted the methodology of single responsibility principle, encapsulation, loose coupling, small testable methods, etc., so my code tends to jump from method to m...

Is there some way of using magic methods in Java like there is in PHP with __call? For instance: class foo { @Setter @Getter int id; @Getter Map <String, ClassInFoo> myMap; protecte...

Suppose I have some generic function genericFunc :: a -> b genericFunc x = doSomeHardWork But for a particular type, there is a much more efficient way that genericFunc could be done. generi...

Is the Visitor Pattern the fastest way to accomplish method parameter type identification (effectively single dispatch on a parameter, not a member's class) in C++? I might know the exact method(s)...

(This question should probably be answered with a reference to Stroustrup.) It seems extremely useful to be able to request a pointer to the most derived class, as in the following: class Base { ...

This is heavily simplified for the sake of the question. Say I have a hierarchy: struct Base { virtual int precision() const = 0; }; template<int Precision> struct Derived : public Base { ...

I am using a class Foo that provides these methods: String overloadedMethod(Object) String overloadedMethod(Goo) Since Java statically dispatches on the non-receiver argument, I cannot just pass...