What is polymorphism, what is it for, and how is it used?

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What is polymorphism, what is it for, and how is it used?

Answer 1

Polymorphism gives you the ability to create one module calling another, and yet have the compile time dependency point against the flow of control instead of with the flow of control.

By using polymorphism, a high level module does not depend on low-level module. Both depend on abstractions. This helps us to apply the dependency inversion principle(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle).

This is where I found the above definition. Around 50 minutes into the video the instructor explains the above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuno5RZNeE