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fully qualified method name
subject			fact

fully qualified method name	has example java.lang.String.substring
	has syntax packageName.className.methodName
	is a subtopic of Methods
	is a subtopic of Packages
	is a kind of fully qualified name
	is a kind of method name
fully qualified name	the fully qualified name for a member must be used if the member is in a different package and if the member's package has not been imported
	can be used to disambiguate two members of different packages with the same name
	see also simple name
method name	can be the same as another method's name in another class
	can be the same as another method's name in the same class if they each have a different arrangement of parameter types
name	is made up of a sequence of Unicode characters
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional