Reference Assignment

[prakash praksh]

Please let me know what happens when at line no 1 and line no2. ?

public class Point {
int x,y;
}

class Ref_Conv {

	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		Point p=new Point();
		Object o=p; .............(1)
		int[] a=new int[3];
		o=a;............(2)

[John de Michele]

Prakash:

Have you tried it? What do you think will happen?

John.

[Nicolas Kal]

Prakash,

At line 1 (9 in the snipset) object 'o' references to the same object reference of p
At line2 (11 in the snipset) object 'o' references to the array reference of variable a in line 10

Regards,
Nicolas