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4.4 Method Overloading

Method overloading is a feature common to most object-oriented programming languages and

is one aspect of polymorphism. This allows us to have methods with the same identifier but

with different argument lists. The argument lists can have a different ordering of data types

or can have a different number of arguments. In the Account class, in addition to the deposit

method we have already seen (lines 12-14), we could also add a second deposit method that

prints the balance if it exceeds a supplied level.

public void deposit(double amount, double level) ...