Java Glossary : override

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override: To provide a replacement method is a new class for one in the superclass. The superclass too will use your new method in place of its own when dealing with objects of your type, though it will continue to use its own method for objects purely of its own type. Be careful. The rules for figuring out exactly which version of a method get invoked are baroque.
gotchas ¤ overload ¤ shadow ¤ subclass ¤ super ¤ superclass

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