What is the real significance(use) of polymorphism

Question

I am new to OOP. Though I understand what polymorphism is, but I can\'t get the real use of it. I can have functions with different name. Why should I try to implement polym

Answer 1

Tabbed Applications

A good application to me is generic buttons (for all tabs) within a tabbed-application - even the browser we are using it is implementing Polymorphism as it doesn't know the tab we are using at the compile-time (within the code in other words). Its always determined at the Run-time (right now! when we are using the browser.)