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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2023 / Imperative programming / 6 / b / i / Solution by

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Permitted; returns "AB". The receiver's static type is A, which offers show(A). The argument also has static type A, so that signature is selected. All three variables refer to the same object of runtime type C; the most-derived implementation of show(A) is inherited from B. Its super.show(o) calls A.show(A), producing "A", and it appends "B". C overrides show(B), not this selected signature.

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