Re: Beginner question referring to an object in a class from within method in that class

On 7/28/23 4:38 PM, Peter Dow wrote:

Also, a variable can be defined with the "new" keyword, e.g.

     wb = new SXSSFWorkbook();

without specifying the type, since the type is determined by the method's constructor method.

Not unless that's something new (no pun intended); "new Bar()" simply calls the Bar constructor to generate a new instance of class Bar, and "foo = new Bar();" does that, and pours the new instance of Bar into some variable called foo. If it also implicitly declares foo to be a variable typed to hold an object of class Bar, then this is the first I've heard of it.

Then again, just about anytime I look at non-trivial Java source, I see constructs I've never seen before, that have me scratching my head.

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JHHL

(Oh, and a constructor is not a method; it's a constructor, sort of the way the King is not a subject, he's the King. [Apologies to Ben Jonson.] And methods don't have constructors; classes have them.)