illegal array reference assignments...

[sonia jaswal]

in K&B's book on pg 225, 3rd chapter, fig 3.6.... the illegal reference assignments whcih are given below... the last one... that is...
myCats[0][1]= moreCats;
the explaination given for this is "cant assign an array object to a nonarray refernce"... but in the code moreCats is a reference variable, not an array object... so should it be moreCats[0]....

thanks..

[Thirugnanam Saravanan]

myCats is a 2-D array object of Cat (i.e., Cat[][]).
moreCats is a 1-D array object of Cat (i.e., Cat[]).

In this case (myCats[0][1]= moreCats ) ,they are trying to assign a Cat[] (Right hand side value i.e moreCats) to a Cat object (left hand side value i.e., myCats[0][1]).

Would have been valid if the assignment is

myCats[0][1]= moreCats[0];
[ December 22, 2007: Message edited by: Thirugnanam Saravanan ]