Method Overloading

Method overloading is when multiple Methods of the same name can be defined, and the compilerdecides which method to invoke based on a method signature. Method overloading promotes Polymorphism in a program

Constructors can also be (and often are) overloaded

Examples §

Method overloading is exclusive to Object Oriented Programming Languagess:

Java §

public class Car
{
	int speed;
	int defaultAccelerationValue = 10;
 
	void Accelerate() 
	{
		speed += defaultAccelerationValue;
	}
 
	//Overloaded version of Accelerate, with custom acc
	void Accelerate(int customAcc)
	{
		speed += customAcc;
	}
}

Constructor methods can also be (and often are) overloaded:

public Circle() {
	public double radius;
		
	public Circle() {
		radius = 5.0;
	}
	//Overloaded methods that specify custom radius
	public Circle(double radius) {
		this.radius = radius
}