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Only a few object-oriented languages actually allow this (for example, [[Python (programming language)|Python]] when typechecked with [[mypy]]). C++, Java and most other languages that support [[Function overloading|overloading]] and/or [[Variable shadowing|shadowing]] would interpret this as a method with an overloaded or shadowed name.
 
However, [[Sather]] supported both covariance and contravariance. Calling convention for overridden methods are covariant with ''out'' parameters and return values, and contravariant with normal parameters (with the mode ''in'').