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Design Patterns Java™ Workbook
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Design Patterns Java™ Workbook

by Steven John Metsker
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
8h 51m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Mechanics of Methods

When you write a method, it becomes available for invocation according to its signature. The JavaLanguage Specification (Gosling et al. 2000) says: “The signature of a method consists of the name of the method and the number and types of formal parameters to the method” (p. 169).

Note that a method's signature does not include return type. However, if a method declaration overrides the declaration of another method, a compile-time error occurs if they have different return types.

CHALLENGE 20.3At Oozinoz, the method MachineSimulator.clone() returns Object, even though the method always returns an instance of MachineSimulator. Will this method be more effective if you change it to return MachineSimulator?

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