function overloading

[neeni maur]

ny 1 can tell me why we use methode or constuctor overloading??
dose it related in terms of memory ???

[Steve Luke]

It has nothing to do with memory. Method overloading provides makes an API easier to use by providing the same function name to call for different parameters. If I wanted to print content to console I can use

System.out.println("Here is some data");

or

System.out.println(12345);

It would be tedious and annoying if there was no method overloading and I had to do something like:

System.out.printStringln("Here is some data");

or

System.out.printIntln(12345);

You would have a bunch of methods that do the same thing but for different input types, and all with slightly different names. Since they all conceptually do the same thing, to make it easier on the caller, we can provide 1 method name, but many different parameter inputs to handle the different types of objects with a simple API:

System.out.println(myDataOfAnyType);

[Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran]

neeni maur wrote: ny 1 can tell me why we use methode or constuctor overloading??
dose it related in terms of memory ???

Constructor are special methods which takes the same name of the declared class. So, the same rule quoted by Steve Luke applies for constructor also.

Simple example: String class constructors.

[Campbell Ritchie]

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