Introduction to Programming

Instance method overloading 

For instance method overloading, there are just two statements to describe it:

• For a non-static method to be overloaded, it has to have the same name and a different set of parameter types as another non-static method of the same class or the class that has a parent-child relationship with the class that contains the overloaded method
• A private non-static method can be overloaded only by a non-static method of the same class.

So, here is an example of method overloading:

void m() {  // some code}int m(String s){  // some code  return 1;}void m(int i){  // some code}int m(String s, double d){  // some code  return 1;}int m(double d, String s){  // some code  return 1;}

As you can see, the name of the overloaded method ...