float and double are primitive types, not class instance types. So what do you mean by "more specific"?
If you mean Float and Double as wrapper classes then, the two classes are distinct subclasses of class Number. [ November 17, 2006: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]
I was looking at the answers at one of the pracitce questions Answers Take a look at answer No.2, I was confused as to what he meant by float is more "specific" than double..
You're right that float is 32 bits and double is 64 bits. So from a point of view of widening the least wide parameter that matches should be used. O can understand that int which is 32 bits would prefer float over double. What surprises me is that long which is 64 bits would fit in a float. In fact I started a new topic regarding this.
As far as which is more specific, the explanation doesn't actually say that a long is more specific than a double. It says the Method that uses a long is more specific than the Method that uses a double. I guess the word specific has a specific meaning when it comes to OOP with regards to classes. I don't know if it's really proper to say one Method is more specific than another. In a sense I suppose you could say a float IS-A double because any float will fit in a double, but that's stretching it I suppose. It's just using IS-A in terms of a subset which is part of the meaning in OOP but doesn't taken into account things like polymorphism.
Oh well, I guess different people have different ideas about what is OOP - just look at C++
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