Calling a method inside another method in same class

Question

In page 428 (the chapter about Type Information) of his \"Thinking In Java, 4th Ed.\", Bruce Eckel has the following example:

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Answer 1

It is not recursion, it is overloading. The two add methods (the one in your snippet, and the one "provided" by ArrayList that you are extending) are not the same method, cause they are declared with different parameters.