parametric polymorphism

Questions

What does parametric polymorphism mean?

A way to make a computer language more expressive, while maintaining full static type safety, by allowing a function or a data type to be written generically so that it can handle values identically without depending on their type.

Where does parametric polymorphism come from?

Coined by British computer scientist Christopher Strachey in 1967.

How to pronounce parametric polymorphism

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