C++:Polymorphism

C++ Polymorphism

Polymorphism is one of crucial and important features of OOP. It simply means “one name and multiple forms”.

The term “Polymorphism” is the combination of “poly” + “morphs” which means many forms. It is a greek word.

In C++ polymorphism is of two types

(i). Compile time polymorphism
(ii). Run time polymorphism

Compile time polymorphism if further divided in two types

(i). Function Overloading/Function polymorphism
(ii). Operator Overloading/Operator polymorphism

Run time polymorphism is of one type

(i). Virtual functions