Overload with different return type in java?

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Published on 2010-03-13T19:49:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 19:55 UTC
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So, I am just starting Java and, even though I have looked in some question about it here at stackoverflow.com and elsewhere, haven't been able to find a straightforward answer to why isn't possible to overload a function just by changing the return type. Why is it so? Will that provably change in a future version of Java?

By the way, just for reference, is this possible in C++?

Thanks.

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