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RE:When?

Posted by Kishori Sharan on January 23, 2001 at 12:53 PM

In fact, this kind of assignment A a = new B() ; happens only in method argument passing where your method expects an object of class A and you pass it an object of its descendatant class, else we never need such kind of assigment when we already know we can use B b = new B() ; It was just his query and I tried to explain him the outcome. This also happens frequently in reading and writing data on network like
InputStream in = soc.getInputStream () ;
In the above case, you don't know for sure what is the class of object returned by getInputStream() except that it will be an object of one of sub-classes of InputStream.

Thanx
Kishori





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