Java Static and Dynamic Binding, Overloading

Question

I am practicing for a test and I came across this exercise about overloading and static and dynamic binding. The output of the following code is asked:

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Answer 1

So this is a super confusing and awful example of something you should never do. The declared type of the variables matters for what signature methods have. So Larry doesn't have method that accepts a Curly, so the compiler considers the argument a Larry. But it gets dispatched to Curly's version of the method.

So yeah, never ever do this =\