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What's the difference between an argument and a parameter?
I was going through some interview questions. I wasn’t able to come up with a solid answer to this question:
Difference between arguments and parameters in Java?
How are they different?
Generally a parameter is what appears in the definition of the method. An argument is the instance passed to the method during runtime.
You can see a description here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_(computer_programming)#Parameters_and_arguments