While I was doing some runs to test some code in this thread I found out a strange thing, If you consider the following program
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class OverloadTest {
public String test1(List l){
return "abc";
}
public int test1(List<Integer> l){
return 1;
}
public static void main(String [] args) {
List l = new ArrayList();
System.out.println(new OverloadTest().test1(l));
}
}
I was expecting Java compiler to show ambiguity error due to byte-code Erasure property, but it didn't. Now when I tried to run this code, I was expecting that test1(List) will be called and the output would be "abc" but to my surprise it called test1(List<Integer>) (output was 1)
I even tried like below
List l = new ArrayList();
l.add("a");
System.out.println(new OverloadTest().test1(l));
But still found Java calling test1(List<Integer> param) method and when i inspected the param it had the String "a" ( how did Java cast List<String> to List<Integer> ?)
