What is Method Overloading in OOP? March 8, 2007
Posted by ordinarywebguy in Java, OOP.trackback
Different OOP programming languages were strong typed language such as Java and C++, it means that methods and variables type should be defined (int, float, double, string, etc.) that’s the reason why there is method overloading. Method overloading is having methods in a class that have same method name but different in parameters. It is a form of Polymorphism.
For example in this code:
class Compute{
public void Add(int param1, int param2) {
//do addition computation here…
}
public void Add(float param1, int param2) {
//do addition computation here…
}
public void Add(int param1, float param2) {
//do addition computation here…
}
}// end class
Now, if we talk about numbers its data type could be a int, double or float. Right? In the code we could then pass those types in method “Add()” to be able to execute addition.
class MyClass{
public static void main (String[] args) {
Compute comp = new Compute;
comp.Add(1,1);
comp.Add(5.5,1);
comp.Add(10000000000000,999999999999999);
}
} // end class
That’s it the “Method Overloading”.
please tell me difference b/w overloading of a constructor and overloading of a simple fn.
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That was simple and understable example. Good! I liked it.