Explain method overloading and overriding?

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Explain method overloading and overriding?..

Answer / janet

Method overloading: when a method in a class having the
same method name with different arguments is said to be
method overloading.
Method Overridding: when a method in a class having the
same method name with same arguments is said to be method
overridding.

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Explain method overloading and overriding?..

Answer / chittaranjan

Method overloading: when a method in a class having the
same method name with different number/type of arguments
with the existense of prevoius meaning also is called
method overloading.
Method Overridding: when a method in a class having the
same method name with same number & type of argument(s)
however there mus not be any existense of previous meaning
is said to be method
overridding.

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Explain method overloading and overriding?..

Answer / prasad

when we use method in a class hane same name with different
arguments are calles method overloading
when we use methodes with same class name and same
arguments called ovverriding

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Explain method overloading and overriding?..

Answer / priyabrata patro

Method overloading happens in class with same method name but by modifying below features
1> By changing number of parameters
2> By changing ordinal position of parameter , i mean to say here is by changing datatype place.
And method overriding happens in two or more than two class , i mean defining same method declaration without any modification within two class and among of that two class , one class must extend another class and further also you can override this method , and this procedure continues till one subclass leaves overriding this method.

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Explain method overloading and overriding?..

Answer / aburar yaseen

overloading:previous answers are correct.
overriding: overriding is possible only in inheritance.
we will have more than one methods in the same name with
same no. of arguments with same type in different classes.

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Explain method overloading and overriding?..

Answer / ravikiran(aptech mumbai)

method overloading is the type of polymorphism with a
different argument list and same method name and can takes
place inside the same class only

method overriding is the process of writing a different
functionality having the same method signature

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