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What is the difference between "overloading" and "overriding"?

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Last Update: March 14, 2006 Asked by: suji

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Submitted by: Richa

Overloading a method (or function) in C++ is the ability for functions of the same name to be defined as long as these methods have different signatures (different set of parameters). Method overriding is the ability of the inherited class rewriting the virtual method of the base class.

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September 28, 2005 09:02:34

Richa

RE: What is the difference between "overloading" and "...

Overloading a method (or function) in C++ is the ability for functions of the same name to be defined as long as these methods have different signatures (different set of parameters). Method overriding is the ability of the inherited class rewriting the virtual method of the base class.

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March 04, 2006 23:43:09

priya

RE: What is the difference between "overloading" and "...

overloading: the same function can perform different operations.overridding: the derived class can rewrite the content of the base class.

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March 13, 2006 23:54:55

swarn kant

RE: What is the difference between "overloading" and "...

All the above answers are right this is one more refinement.

overridding is runtime polymorphism while overloading is compile time polymorphism.

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