Function Overloading

[ankiit]

Hi Mentors,

I want to calculate the area of circle, triangle, rectangle, square & cube within a single program with the help of function overloading. the issue i am facing is that that in some of the area function definitions I have only one parameter.

please have a look at my code:-

/*circle, triangle, rectangle, square, pentagon, cube, cylinder, cone, cuboid*/

class AreaShape
{
	
	 	int area;
		void Area(int b, int h)			//triangle
	 	{
		 area = (b*h)/2;
		 System.out.println("area of triangle is:-" + area);
		}
		
		void Area(int r)			// circle
		{
		 area = (int) 3.14*r*r;
		 System.out.println("area of circle is:-" + area);
		}

		void Area(int w , int h)		//rectangle
		{
		area = w*h;
		System.out.println("area of rectangle is:-" + area);
		}
		
		void Area(int s)			//square
		{
		area = s*s;
		System.out.println("area of square is:-" + area);
		}
	
		void Area(int a)		//cube
		{
		area = 6*a*a;
		System.out.println("area of square is:-" + area);
		}

		
	
}

class CalArea
{
	public static void main(String [] args)
	{
	AreaShape obj1 = new AreaShape();
	obj1.Area(4,5);
	obj1.Area(3);
	obj1.Area(1,4);	
	obj1.Area(6);
	obj1.Area(7);
	}
}

error i am getting is as below:-


I want to use only one data type either an int or a float as arguments to my methods.

[Diargg]

int area;
void area(int r)

Java is case sensitive.

EDIT: This is incorrect. Variables and methods can have the same name. Perhaps not good style, but still compile-able.

[ankiit]

Java is case sensitive.

I am using function overloading, in which every function has same name.

My point is that i want to use on integers as an argument to the functions, since area of square is a*a and for cube is 6*a*a. I have an issue with this function overloading.

[Diargg]

Forgive me, I saw an error where there wasn't one. Turns out you can have variables with the same name as a method. Go figure.

However, for your code:

If I say "area(6)", do you know which one I'm talking about? If you don't, neither does your program. You need different parameters, switching inside the method, or different method names.

Also:

void Area(int b, int h)
void area(int r)

Does not constitute overloading.

[DarrylBurke]

I am using function overloading

Java has methods. Not functions.

db

[ankiit]

Java has methods. Not functions.

db

Hi,

I agree to your point but still the technique is known as function overloading and not method overloading.

[cobwer]

In order to make overloading works, you have to have unique signatures.

void Area(int b, int h) {...}
void Area(int r) {...}

they are ok.
Since they use different signature you can call:

Area(10, 20); // to execute the first function or..
Area(5); // to execute the second function

But the signature of the fallowing functions are identical, even though the variable name are different because it doesn't matter, the types are the same

void Area(int b, int h){...}
void Area(int w, int h) {...}

and also the same for

void Area(int r){...}
void Area(int s){...}
void Area(int a){...}

Here the definition is ambiguous.

[Zyril]

To add to what previous replier already pointed out, I noticed that you used 3.14 instead of Pi. To use Pi and other useful math functions, you can use the Java.Lang.Math API.

Note how I calculate the area of a circle with the radius 3, by using different Math methods.

public class Geometry {
   
      public static void main(String[] args) {
    	  circleArea(3);
      } 
      
      public static void circleArea(int radius){
    	  double area = Math.PI*Math.pow(radius, 2);
    	  System.out.println(area);
      }
}

Cheers,
Z!