confused with use of " this" in the constructor

[Gazala Bohra]

Hi everyone,
I came across a code in which the constructor of the class had this statement:
system.out.println(this);
Can somebody please tell me what this implies.It appeared on two mock exams.
Waiting eagerly to hear from somebody.
Thanks
Gazala.

[Randall Twede]

system.out.println(this);
will call the toString() method of that class. Unless toString has been overridden in this class or one of its superclasses(up the hierarchy) then the toString inherited from Object will be called which will return a memory location I believe.

[Gazala Bohra]

Thank you very much Randall.This is a interesting discovery.You have motivated me to run this piece of code and check out if it really prints a memory location, cause there doesn't seem to be a overridden toString method in this class definition.
Thanks again,
Gazala.

[Gazala Bohra]

Hi Randall,
I tried that and you were right.I created a class 'Arbit' in a package 'test' and wrote this line:
system.out.println(this)
in the constructor of the class and here is what I got as a output:
test.Arbit@111f71
I hope this helps others too!
Thanks once again.
Gazala.