RE: Instantiation question

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's exactly right, Brad.

Joe

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:58:39 -0600 

>Ok, so just to make sure I understand.

Animal animal = new Cat();

Methods fron the class Animal are available to animal.
Unique methods in the Cat class are not available to animal.
If a method exists in both Animal and Cat, the methods in Cat will be used.

Animal contains methods isMammal, hasFur, isPoisonous
Cat contains methods hasFur, breed

I can do animal.isMamal(), aninmal.hasFur(), and animal.isPoisonous()
I cannot do animal.breed()
If I used animal.hasFur(), the method from the Cat class will be used, not
the method from the Animal class.

Is this right?

Brad

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