Originally posted by vishnu priya parimi:
The answer given is 2. Can any one explain me why?
Which one do you think could be true, too, and why? Is there any reason you doubt that 2 could apply?
BTW, I think the answers are worded a little bit sloppily: a reference is not an instance of a class, it references ("points to") an instance of a class - and that instance is checked by the operator.
That's important because the reference has a type, too (the one you declare in the source code), but that is not checked by instanceof.
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