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

You can think this way:

You have:

  int get(int);
  char get(int);

And, it is not mandatory to collect the return value of the function while invoking.

Now, You invoke

  get(10);  -> there is an ambiguity here which function to invoke. 

So, No meaning if overloading is allowed based on the return type.