Source of MethodOverloadError.java


  1: // Fig. 6.15: MethodOverload.java
  2: // Overloaded methods with identical signatures 
  3: // cause compilation errors, even if return types are different.
  4: 
  5: public class MethodOverloadError
  6: {   
  7:    // declaration of method square with int argument
  8:    public int square( int x )
  9:    {
 10:       return x * x;
 11:    }
 12:    
 13:    // second declaration of method square with int argument 
 14:    // causes compilation error even though return types are different
 15:    public double square( int y )
 16:    {
 17:       return y * y;
 18:    }
 19: } // end class MethodOverloadError
 20: 
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