Quick question about casting

[Christian Joseph]

in the seft test in the SCJP book
i get a mistake on this one

class Alien{

    String invade(short ships){
           System.out.println("few");
    }

    String invade(short ... ships){
           System.out.println("many");
    }

}
class Defender{
     public static void main(String[] args){

           System.out.println(new Alien.invade(7)); //<----- is this argument transfer a "int" ??


    }
}

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

you are passing int value to short argument, which is compile time error. because method invocation cant perform narrowing conversion!
Note: your invade method not having return statement!

[Christian Joseph]

thanks you clear my doubts!!! thanks RANCHERS!!! phew!