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CHAPTER 52 ---- More About Polymorphism

This chapter continues the discussion of polymorphism begun in the previous chapter. Recall that polymorphism is when a reference variable may at different times in a program refer to objects of different (but related) classes.

Chapter Topics:

  • Signature of a method.
  • Overriding abstract methods.
  • Arrays of related objects.
  • The Object class.
  • The instanceof operator.

QUESTION 1:

(Review: ) What is a method's signature?

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