Re: Please explain this polymorphism twist to me.
Lew wrote:
Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
The object you have in Visitor.visit(Super s) is still a Sub object,
so you could try "instanceof Sub" to branch
to visit(Sub s)'s behaviour. Not a nice solution, but
not worse than the overloaded methods in the first place.
I really don't understand the objection to method overloads. They taste
great and are less filling.
Because they lead to confusion and are often abused (such as this case).
What would be the harm in calling it visitSuper and visitSub? It makes
it clearer to the caller exactly what is happing. One of the few times
(I don't know for sure, but I might say the only time) that overloading
makes any kind of sense is with operator overloading, which isn't
possible in Java.
Now, if Java supported multiple dispatch, that might make method
overloading more useful. It also would have prevented the confusion of
the OP in this case, by doing what they had expected.
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