User:Captain gull/Polymorphism

Polymorphism

Polymorphism is something that most programmers have heard of yet vaguely understand, much like women, dating women or showering (with or without women). This is because polymorphism was never meant to be understood. Polymorphism is just one of the many baffling properties of object oriented programming.

Put simply in layman terms, polymorphism means there is a class that masquerades as another class while telling everyone that it is, in fact, the class as it was originally created even though it has quite plainly and obviously to everyone concerned, inherited its features from that other class which may or may not be its own subclass, depending on the dubious breeding of the programmer who wrote it.

Usage

A virtual method is like virtual sex, only not as fun yet easier to clean up afterwards.