Overloading by return type

Question

I read few questions here on SO about this topic which seems yet confusing to me. I\'ve just begun to learn C++ and I haven\'t studied templates yet or operator overloading

Answer 1

No, you can't overload by return type; only by parameter types, and const/volatile qualifiers.

One alternative would be to "return" using a reference argument:

void get(int, int&);
void get(int, char&);

although I would probably either use a template, or differently-named functions like your second example.