CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch5 5a KR

Introduction

Overloading can be broken down into Operator Overloading and Method/Function Overloading. Method overloading can be considered to be a type of polymorphism in which two methods with the same name are used to perform different functions according to the parameters passed to the methods. Operator overloading can be considered to be a type a polymorphism in which a particular operator is defined to perform another action.

References

[1] Andrew Black, Kim. B. Bruce, James Noble. Designing the Next Educational Programming Language

[2] Operator Overloading

[3] Function Overloading