Override HashCode() API To Custom Linked List

I have come across override keyword used in the header file that i am working on. May i know, what is real use of override, perhaps with an example would be easy to understand. For overrides of that virtual function in a class derived from some base class providing a virtual function of the same (or covariant) signature final:

For marking an override as unoverrideable. I have a base class with a virtual function and i want to override that function in a derived class. @override tells the compiler your intent:

If you tag a method @override, you intended to override something from the superclass (or interface, in java 6). What's the difference between override and overwrite? Dec 3, 2010public class naivealien extends alien { @override public void harvest(){} } i was trying to understand my friend's code, and i do not get the syntax, @override in the code.