convience-methods

• Generally, created to allow for mulitple inputs, or different types for an input

• Use overloading judiciously and sparingly

  • best to refrain from overloading methods with same number of params

  • avoid situations where the same set of parameters can be passed to different overloadings by the addition of casts

  • ensure that all overloadings behave identically when passed the same parameters

  • Have consistent argument order

  • Avoid long list of args, esp with same type

    • encapsulate in an object

• For constructors

  • use static factory methods

    • can return differetn subclasses in these methods

    • add validation, without polluting the constructor

    • avoid overloading the constructor