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Chapter 6. Inheritance and Polymorphism > Overloading, Hiding, and Overriding
6.5. Overloading, Hiding, and Overriding
First, recall the definitions of two terms that often get confused:
When two or more versions of a function foo exist in the same scope (with different signatures), we say that foo has been overloaded.
When a virtual function from the base class also exists in the derived class, with the same signature and return type, we say that the derived version overrides the base class version.
