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I'd flip it over and say that C++ has overloading&SFINAE to enable polymorphism which it otherwise can't express.



Such as? The basic property of overloading is it's open. Any closed set of overloads can be converted to a single function which does the same dispatch logic with ifs and type traits (it may not be very readable).




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