Re: Another simple problem

From: Joona I Palaste (palaste_at_cc.helsinki.fi)
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: 11 Dec 2004 16:55:59 GMT

wislam <wislam@gmail.com> scribbled the following:
> What if you wanted a method called new() under Foobar obj?

> And I think it might add needless complexity to the compiler & code if
> you used: -
> Car car = new New();
> rather than
> Car car = new Car();
> no?

> How would you initialise the Car object? Same way as before?
> But then the Car() method call doesn't make sense.

> I guess you could do:
> car = new(toyota);

> Which I think is just as confusing (if not more so in the object) if
> you simply used the class name as the constructor.

I'm sorry, but you appear to have drawn conclusions from my post I never
intended. All I was proposing was changing the syntax of the constructor
declaration. Calling the constructor would remain the exact same as
before.

So if you had:

public class Car {
  public new() {
    /* ... */
  }
  public new(String model, int year) {
    /* ... */
  }
}

you would still call it with:
Car c1 = new Car();
Car c2 = new Car("Toyota", 1996); 

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