What does it mean by overloading an operator

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In a book am reading about String concatenation, they say that the '+' operator is overloaded in java (the only overloaded operator).How is it overloaded?

12+13 and 12+"test" is interpreted differently – Darshan Lila Apr 17 '15 at 08:21 — Darshan Lila, Apr 17 '15 at 08:21

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '15 at 08:22

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Overloading for + operator means that there are two different operations depending on the parameters.

For numbers + is an addition
For String + is a concatenation

answered Apr 17 '15 at 08:22

Davide Lorenzo MARINO

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What does it mean by overloading an operator

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