Lakhyadeep Sen’s Post

While studying method overriding, a few rules also became clear that control how overriding works in Java. These rules ensure that the behaviour of inherited methods stays consistent across parent and child classes. Things that became clear : • the method name and parameter list must remain the same • the return type must be the same or related to the parent method • the access level of the method cannot be reduced in the child class • private methods do not participate in inheritance and therefore cannot be overridden • methods declared as final cannot be overridden • if a method is abstract in the parent class, the child class must provide its implementation These rules help Java maintain a predictable structure when classes inherit behaviour from one another. Understanding these restrictions made it easier to see how inheritance and polymorphism work together in object oriented programs. #java #oop #programming #learning #dsajourney

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