Java's Object Orientation, I/O

CS 161 - Java

Overloading

• Two or more methods may have the same name but take different sets of arguments; they have different signatures.

• This is called overloading.

• Method signatures must differ by the type and/or number of arguments, not only by the data type they return;

• A common use of overloading in Java is to have multiple constructors, each taking a different set of arguments.

Question: Why would this be useful?

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