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How does BeanShell handle method overloading compared to Java?
BeanShell generally supports method overloading in a manner consistent with standard Java - multiple scripted methods with the same name but different parameter lists can coexist, and BeanShell resolves which one to call based on the arguments actually provided at the call site.
Because BeanShell also allows loosely-typed parameters, overload resolution can behave somewhat more flexibly than Java's strict compile-time overload resolution, since the interpreter is making some of these matching decisions at runtime against the actual argument types passed, rather than Java's compiler resolving everything statically ahead of time.
This flexibility is generally convenient for quick scripting, but it does mean overload resolution in edge cases, like ambiguous or loosely-typed arguments, can be somewhat less predictable than Java's well-defined, purely compile-time overload resolution rules.
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