Java Glossary : overload

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overload: Having two functions with the same name in the same method, but that differ in the types of their arguments. It is not legal to have two methods of the same name that differ only in their return types. Be careful. The rules for figuring out exactly which version of a method get invoked are baroque.
gotchas ¤ override ¤ shadow ¤ subclass ¤ super ¤ superclass

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