When you have overloaded methods, Java decides at compile time which variant method to use. Thus it must make its decisions based on the declared types of the references, not the types of corresponding run-time Objects. So for example:
In contrast, the Nice programming language does the matching at run time, based on the run-time types of the Objects.Java’s general rule is to use the most specific matching method.
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