Amusing discovery of the day

Java bytecode lets you overload method names based on the return type as well as the argument types, even if the language doesn’t.

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9:01 pm, Saturday, December 29th, 2007

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One Response to “Amusing discovery of the day”

  1. Yardena says:
    December 29, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    Yep, see Class#getMethod – bridge methods rely on this.

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