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overloading

In programming, the ability to use the same name for more than one variable or procedure, requiring the compiler to differentiate them based on context.

overloading [¦ō·vər¦lōd·iŋ]

(computer science)

The use, in some advanced programming languages, of two or more variables or subroutines with the same name; the compiler determines by inference which entity is referred to each time the name occurs.

(language)

overloading - (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism.

User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes.

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