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class A {}
class B extends A {}
class C extends B {
static void m(A x, A y) {System.out.print("AA");}
static void m(A x, B y) {System.out.print("AB");}
static void m(B x, A y) {System.out.print("BA");}
static void m(B x, B y) {System.out.print("BB");}
public static void main(String[] args) {
m(null,null);
}
}
I know that m(null,null) calls m(B x,B,y) and my question is why m(B x, B y) is more specific than
m(A x, A y)???
 
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I know that m(null,null) calls m(B x,B,y) and my question is why m(B x, B y) is more specific than
Because m(B x, B y) has arguments that more derived (specific) than m(A x, A y).
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The following quote is from theJava Language Specification, Section 15.12.2.2, Choose the Most Specific Method.

The informal intuition is that one method declaration is more specific than another if any invocation handled by the first method could be passed on to the other one without a compile-time type error.

 
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