recipe 1.4. Defining Two or More Methods with the Same Name in an Object

1.4.1. Problem

You would like to implement two or more methods with the same name in one object. In object-oriented programming, this is called method overloading. However, in Objective-C, method overloading does not exist in the same way as it does in other programming languages such as C++.

Note:

The techniques used and explained in this recipe’s Solution and Discussion are merely ways to create methods that have different numbers of parameters or have parameters with different names, just to give you an idea of how you can have methods whose first name segments are the same.