Calling Arg-Constructor...

[Rekha Anand]

Warm Regards to All Java Ranchers...

Please have a look at the following program...

public class Test7{
public Test7(){
this(4);
}
public Test7(short var){ // Line-1
System.out.println(var);
}
public static void main(String[] args){
Test7 t7 = new Test7();
}
}


This code gives compile time error. The problem is with the constructor call
this(4);

If I change the data type in Line-1 from short to int, the code compiles fine. Why am I getting this error although 4 lies in the range of short type..?

Thanks..
Rekha

[Ravikanth kolli]

hi Rekha Anand ,
All the integer values in java are by default considered as int according to the java language specification.

So when you call a constructor which accepts an int value (4) as a short it gives an error. Since int is much bigger and there might be a loss of precision.

but even when you typecast (4) to short something like ((short)4) then it is going to work fine because you are explicitly telling the compiler to consider the value (4) to be of type short.

hope this helps

[Rekha Anand]

Thanks!! It helped.

Rekha