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Doubt in Overloading

 
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The error message comes for the comment line as " Ambiguious for the type overload" .
Now , if I pass the explicit values , no error comes. But ambiguity rises as i pass the variables.
What is the difference between this two method calling.

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Because boxing or unboxing is required to satisfy either of the signatures the compiler doesn't know which method it should call.
 
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hello, Ian
I am not cleared. Why it is not automatically unboxed or boxed for method invocation. If I comment either of methods, then it is working.

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As Ian has mentioned already,

for

ob.sum(10,20)

the compiler is passed with implied 2 int primitives. Therefore, the compiler knows which method to call, which is the

sum(int a, int b)

However, for the

ob.sum(x,y);

you passed an int and and Integer. The compiler doesnt know which of the 2 methods to call:

sum(int a, int b)
or
sum(Integer a ,Integer b)

If you are still confused, try think like a compiler. If you are the compiler, how you know which of the 2 overloaded methods would you call if you are given

ob.sum(x,y)

?
 
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Are these examples of overloading,
 
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