>What about the situation where 90% of the code in the 2+ methods are the same? Now we have code duplication. A solution may be for each of the overloaded methods to 'translate' the parameters into some common form and then all of them call the common code method.
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>Anthony
Templates, as Bill points out, are one way. Another is, indeed, to have one method invoke another one. For instance, you can have a version of a constructor with one parameter, and another version with two. In other words, the second parameter is optional. You can consider any of the two versions as your main constructor; and have the other one call your "main constructor".
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