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

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Sep 19th, 2005
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Answered by: Richa

Sep 28th, 2005

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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Richa

Sep 28th, 2005

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.

priya

Mar 4th, 2006

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

swarn kant

Mar 13th, 2006

All the above answers are right this is one more refinement.
overridding is runtime polymorphism while overloading is compile time polymorphism.