Wikipedia sayssoftware entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modificationThe word functions caught my eyes, and I now wonder if we can assume that creating an overload for a method can be regarded as an example of the Open/closed principle or not?Let me explain an example. Consider that you have a method in your service layer, which is used in almost 1000 places. The method gets userId and determines whether user is admin or not:bool IsAdmin(userId)Now consider that somewhere it's necessary to determine if the user is admin or not, based on username, not userId. If we change the signature of the above-mentioned method, then we've broken code in 1000 places (functions should be closed to modification). Thus we can create an overload to get the username, find the userId based on username, and the original method:public bool IsAdmin(string username){    int userId = UserManager.GetUser(username).Id;    return IsAdmin(userId);}This way, we've extended our function through creating an overload for it (functions should be open to extension).Is it an Open/closed principle example?
Is overloading an example of the Open/closed principle?
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