Overloading

[Anonymous]

i have two methods whose name are the same,and since they are in the same class so oberloading would takes place.But if i have
methods defined as follows
class dummy{
void Firstfunc(int a,int b,int c)
{ ....................... }
float Firstfunc(int a,int b,int c)
{ ........................ }
}
since it is clear that the the diference in two methods is only of return type can anybody tell me that is it possible?

[Anbooo Sanygao]

Did you try writing a small piece of code

[ravi chan]

class dummy{
void Firstfunc(int a,int b,int c)
{ ....................... }
float Firstfunc(int a,int b,int c)
{ ........................ }
}

it is not possible, in order to overload the method signature has to be different. So change the arguments to :
float Firstfunc(float a, int b, int c). Return type can be any data type when you are overloading. Please correct me if I am wrong. And also a thing to note is you cannot change the overloaded declaration to float Firstfunc(long a, long b, long c)
will give you a compiler error if your method call is Firstfunc(1, 2, 3) because the compiler gets confused about both the overloaded methods.

[Gautam Pandya]

Ravi,
Your explanation is really good but I think the last part as quoted under is not correct. The method can be overloaded with a
method float Firstfunc(long a, long b, long c).
I mean, there is nothing wrong with the given code if modified as below.

class dummy{
      void Firstfunc(int a,int b,int c)
      { ....................... }
      //float Firstfunc(int a,int b,int c) -- Original
      float Firstfunc(long a,long b,long c)
      { ........................ }
}

Gautam.

Originally posted by ravi chan:

. . . And also a thing to note is you cannot change the overloaded declaration to float Firstfunc(long a, long b, long c)
will give you a compiler error if your method call is Firstfunc(1, 2, 3) because the compiler gets confused about both the overloaded methods.

[prasanthi kothapa]

hi ameen,
changing the return type doesn't come under
overloading, since the signature of the
method doesn't change(only the method name
and arguments come under the signature).
hence you will get a compiler error in this case.
hope it helps..
prasanthi

[Oliver Grass]

Hey Ravi,
you can overload the method with a signature Firstfunc(long a, long b, long c).

Originally posted by ravi chan:
And also a thing to note is you cannot change the overloaded declaration to float Firstfunc(long a, long b, long c)
will give you a compiler error if your method call is Firstfunc(1, 2, 3) because the compiler gets confused about both the overloaded methods.
[/B]

Compiler will not get confused, cause Firstfunc(1, 2, 3) can be uniquely identified. 1, 2, 3 are ints, so he will call the Firstfunc(int a, int b, int c)...
Same with floats and doubles....
hope that helps
Oliver