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Covariant return type

Known as: Covariant return, Covariant type return 
In object-oriented programming, a covariant return type of a method is one that can be replaced by a "narrower" type when the method is overridden in… 
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2016
2016
Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Programmer Exam 1Z0-809
class Shape { // other methods elided public abstract Shape copy(); } class Circle extends Shape { // other methods elided public… 
2007
2007
Helping manage the concern of object cloning in Java programs
In previous work [2] we investigated the concern of tagging entities of various intermediate representations of the Soot [9… 
2007
2007
Open multi-methods for c++
Multiple dispatch - the selection of a function to be invoked based on the dynamic type of two or more arguments - is a solution… 
2006
2006
CMOF-model semantics and language mapping for MOF 2.0 implementations
  • M. Scheidgen
  • Fourth Workshop on Model-Based Development of…
  • 2006
  • Corpus ID: 17167089
Meta-modelling programming frameworks enable engineers to deal with models, defined through object-oriented meta-models, in the… 
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