Method (computer Science) - Overloaded Methods

Overloaded methods are those that appear to have the same name, but that have different formal parameter types (or result value type, if the language supports overloading on result type). The "real name" of the method is made up by concatenating the identifier used to name the method with an encoding of the types, so this works only for languages in which the types are statically known. Overloading is generally confusing; it is better practice to simply come up with more meaningful names for ones methods, that is, names that explain the role of the parameters. For example in the following C++, class geometry have two method named "area". But their parameter list is different which distinguish the methods. Many other languages provide this feature.

#include class geometry { public: static double area(double h, double w) { return h * w; } static double area(double r) { return r * r * 3.14; } }; int main { double rectangle_area = geometry::area(3, 4); double circle_area = geometry::area(5); std::cout << rectangle_area << '\n'; std::cout << circle_area << '\n'; }

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