Why to use Polymorphism?

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In your example, the use of polymorphism isn’t incredibly helpful since you only have one subclass of FlyingMachine. Polymorphism becomes helpful if you have multiple kinds of FlyingMachine. Then you could have a method that accepts any kind of FlyingMachine and uses its fly() method. An example might be testMaxAltitude(FlyingMachine).

Another feature that is only available with polymorphism is the ability to have a List<FlyingMachine> and use it to store Jet, Kite, or VerySmallPebbles.

One of the best cases one can make for using polymorphism is the ability to refer to interfaces rather than implementations.

For example, it’s better to have a method that returns as List<FlyingMachine> rather than an ArrayList<FlyingMachine>. That way, I can change my implementation within the method to a LinkedList or a Stack without breaking any code that uses my method.

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