PHP __call equivalent for java

Question

Is there a Java equivalent for the __call of PHP?

It would make sense to me if that\'s not the case, because it would probably result in compiler errors.

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Answer 1

No, Java doesn't have that feature. For one thing, I think it would make overloading pretty much impossible (some argue overloading is a bad idea anyway, but this isn't the right forum for that debate). Beyond that, I get the sense that the designers of Java just feel that the flexibility something like that (I know it from Perl where it's called AUTOLOAD) is outweighed by the guarantee that any code that compiles is only calling methods that actually exist (barring binary incompatibilities).