Overload a Package with Private Procedures

Question

Hello All,
Is there a probelem if you Overload a Package with Private Procedures?
In other words if I have two like named procedures in a package, neither of which is declared in the pacakge specification? It seems like I always overloaded a package with public procedures.
Thanks for any help,
Bradley

Answer 1

I can:
SQL>CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE test
  2  AS
  3    PROCEDURE test_public;
  4  END  test;
  5  /
Package created.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
SQL>
SQL>sho err
No errors.
SQL>CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY test
  2  AS
  3    PROCEDURE test_private (num IN NUMBER)
  4    IS
  5    BEGIN
  6      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('number: '||TO_CHAR(num));
  7    END test_private;
  8
  9    PROCEDURE test_private (str IN VARCHAR2)
10    IS
11    BEGIN
12      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('string: '||str);
13    END test_private;
14
15    PROCEDURE test_public
16    IS
17    BEGIN
18      NULL;
19      test_private(1);
20      test_private('a');
21    END test_public;
22  END  test;
23  /
Package body created.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
SQL>sho err
No errors.
SQL>
SQL>exec test.test_public
number: 1
string: a
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
SQL>
SQL>select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
CORE    10.2.0.4.0      Production
TNS for Linux IA64: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
Elapsed: 00:00:00.04
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