RE: Instantiation question

Thanks Joe.  You're a good teacher! :)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@plutabrothers.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:16 AM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Instantiation question
> 
> 
> 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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