Java Notes 05 Method | Java学习笔记 函数

Method

A collection of statements that are grouped together to perform an operation.
Define a mehod
^
Invoke when need
^
用Math 时用static method
不是static 就必须被invoked from an using obj

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Signature

A combination of the method name and the parameter list.

Syntax

methodHeader modifier returnType methodName(parameter(s)){
body statement
(return statement)
}

example

public static int max(int num1, nint num2){
return num1>num2 ? num1 : num2;
}

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Parameter

Formal PArmeter: The variables defined in the method header.

Actual Parameter: Refereing the value when a method is invoked.

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Return type

• A method may return a value. ( 如果定义为void则不用）
• main（） 总是void
• The returnValueType is the data typeof the value the method returns.

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Overloading

• A class has multiple methods having same name but different in parameters
• 两个影响overload的条件：
  1. argument的数量
  2. data type
• 与return type无关： 会导致ambiguity。