Application Related

[tejas jadhav]

Does any body know what Constructor returns?

[Nathan Pruett]

tejas,
A constructor for any class returns an instance (actual object) of the class in which it is defined in... Normally you have to define a return type, but the constructor is a special case and it's return type is always the type of object defined in your class... and the only way to call a constructor is via the new keyword. (illustration only... not actual code... the code in angle brackets would not actually be in a real program.) -

class someObject 
{
    int i;
    String s;
    //constructor
    <someObject> someObject() 
    {
        i = 2;
        s = "someObject constructor called!";
        <return someObject;>
    }
    public static void main( String args[] )
    {
        someObject so = new someObject(); //call to constructor
    }
}

HTH,
-Nate