problem from khalid's book

[smriti singla]

hello
in problem 1.4 (review questions,chapter 1)in Khalid's book it is given that Thing is a class and how many objects and reference variables are created by the following code
Thing item, stuff;
item = new Object();
Thing entity = new Object();
According to me the answer should be no object is created and three reference variables are created as creating an object involves using the new operator togather with a call to constructor of the class(given on page 4 in book under topic "class instantiation") and 'Object()' is not a constructor of class Thing as constructor always has the same name as that of the class.But answers given in the book on page 623 shows that options b and f are true which shows that two objects and three reference variables are created.i could not understand this.please explain this if anybody knows.any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Smriti Singla

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi Smriti,
You are correct in assuming that the Compiler will most likely complain about assigning instance Object to instance Thing. I think this was corrected in the book errata ...
Correct problem:

  Object item, stuff;
  item = new Object();
  Object entity = new Object();

Using the above corrected code, the results stated by Khalid are correct.
Regards,
Manfred.