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8.10.9.Overloading When Combining Widening and Boxing
class MainClass {
  static void go(Long x) { System.out.println("Long"); }

  public static void main(String [] args) {
    byte b = 5;
    go(b);           // must widen then box - illegal
  }
}
 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: 
	The method go(Long) in the type MainClass is not applicable for the arguments (byte)

	at MainClass.main(MainClass.java:6)
8.10.Boxing Unboxing
8.10.1.Rules for overloading methods using widening, boxing, and var-args
8.10.2.Boxing, ==, and equals()
8.10.3.Where Boxing Can Be Used
8.10.4.Wrapper reference variables can be null
8.10.5.Overloading Method Matching
8.10.6.Overloading with Boxing and Var-args
8.10.7.Predict the output of the following
8.10.8.boxing beat var-args
8.10.9.Overloading When Combining Widening and Boxing
8.10.10.A boxing operation followed by a widening operation in order to match an invocation to a method.
8.10.11.Overloading in Combination with Var-args
8.10.12.Autoboxing and auto-unboxing are compiler modifications that permit previously illegal combinations of wrappers and primitives.
8.10.13.The wrapper on the left-hand side must correspond exactly to the primitive type on the right-hand side.
8.10.14.The following autoboxing assignment is illegal
8.10.15.Boxing requires an exact match between the wrapper class and the primitive type.
8.10.16.Boxing also occurs when a method's return type is a wrapper.
8.10.17.Unboxing is the automatic extraction of a wrapped value.
8.10.18.Unboxing the parameter
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