Re: Inheritance Question

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
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Date:
Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:24:54 +0100
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:

On 07/08/2008 03:02, Arne Vajh?j allegedly wrote:

Daniele Futtorovic wrote:

Alternatively...
<code>
//Parent Abstract Class
public abstract class Fruit {
    protected String fruit = "Fruit";

    public String whatAmI() {
        return fruit;
    }
}

//Subclass
public class Apple extends Fruit {
    public Apple() {
        fruit = "Apple";
    }

    public static void main(String [] args) {
        Apple myApple = new Apple();

        System.out.println("-->" + myApple.whatAmI() );
    }
}
</code>

...would work, too. It's not very clean, however.


It certainly is not very clean.


Most definitely. But since I seemed as though the OP's problem was that
he didn't understand he was shadowing the superclass field, I thought
I'd mention it, showing how the field could be accessed.


I agree. Whilst the approach the OP was trying to take is not the best,
i'm pretty sure the real problem he had was that he didn't realise that
one field declaration was shadowing the other.

tom

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