static public final float myMax(float... input) { -- code for finding max of an array -- }
Java automatically transforms your input into an array which you can traverse like an array.
This means that you only need to define a single function and it will be able to deal with all of these scenarios
myMax(1,2); myMax(1,2,-1,2,20000000,9,3); myMax(new float[]{1,2,-1,2,20000000,9,3});
You’re not constrained to just the float
type though. Any class will do, from Strings, to booleans, to custom classes you’ve created yourself.
Wish I’d known this when I first began using Java.