polymorphic iteration
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The use of an iterator class or interface to enable traversal over the members of any type of collection for which there is a corresponding descendant of that iterator by code which need not know the type of the collection.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "When we write methods that take iterators as parameters, we are using polymorphic iteration."
- "The results described here provide the foundations for a series of results, including the definition of a linear version of Gödel's system Τ with a decidable typing system for polymorphic iteration."
- "Use the Iterator pattern to provide a uniform interface for traversing different aggregate structures (that is, to support polymorphic iteration)."