Suppose I have a bunch of fruit: class Fruit { ... }; class Apple : public Fruit { ... }; class Orange: public Fruit { ... }; And some polymorphic functions that operate on said fruit: void Eat...

The problem of single dispatch is mostly familiar to people engaged in coding with statically typed languages like Java and C#. The basic idea is: While the runtime polymorphism allows us to dispa...

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...

...or are they the same thing? I notice that each has its own Wikipedia entry: Polymorphism, Multiple Dispatch, but I'm having trouble seeing how the concepts differ. Edit: And how does Overloadin...