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Implicit promotion for constructor arguments

 
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Hi Folks,

Can somebody explain why the code below compiles. Why does Main a = new Main(3) call the constructor that takes the float argument. How does JAVA handle implicit promotion for constructor arguments? Thanks!

 
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That's because an int can be automaticly converted to a float (or to a long, or a double)
 
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Hi,

int value 3 is converted into float. So Math(3) is executed. For more information about casting refer this link.

http://www.javaranch.com/maha/Resources/CarlsNotes.txt
 
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Hi,

You can look at this way


byte->short->int->long->float->double

In fact here you can have char converts into int...apart from short...

char->int..



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Try it with code tags...

Henry

 
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Hi.

Thanks Henry...Thats what i was trying to convey...


 
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Andreas
In your constructor Main(float i) you pass the float value for i in but you never assign it to anything. The this() call your constructor with no arguments which is always going to assign the value 3 to i.
 
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