Snippet

Method Overloading

Method overloading allows multiple methods in the same class to have the same name but different parameters.

snippet.java

java

class Calculator {
    int add(int a, int b) {
        return a + b;
    }
    
    double add(double a, double b) {
        return a + b;
    }
}

Breakdown

int add(int a, int b) {

First version of the method accepting two integers.

double add(double a, double b) {

Second version of the method accepting two doubles.