- From: Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:21:20 -0400
- To: Hassan Aït-Kaci <hak@ilog.com>
- CC: W3C RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
In the hope that it helps clarify further, Java is ONDS according to
the labels I made up: The functions foo and the class variable foo are
different things that happen to have the same name.
This example introduces overloading, in which the distinction between
the two functions comes from its signature - this is another dimension
that isn't covered by the four categories I suggested, but is orthogonal.
-Chris
Hassan Aït-Kaci wrote:
> Sandro (and the rest who still cling to separate names for separate
> things),
> please save the enclosed file, run 'javac' on it, then 'java
> ExampleForSandro'.
>
> There - convinced?
>
> -hak
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> public class ExampleForSandro
> {
> static String foo = "Hi Sandro!";
>
> static String foo ()
> {
> return (foo = "... and the the rest of the RIF gang ... :-)");
> }
>
> static void foo (String s)
> {
> System.out.println(s);
> }
>
> static public void main (String[] args)
> {
> foo(foo);
> foo(foo());
> }
> }
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