problem #13, p.168 of Sierra and Bates book

[Rachel Glenn]

The base class Mammal has a String variable called name.
The subclass, Zebra, also has a variable called name.

Why does this compile? What am I missing? Doesn't Zebra inherit the superclass member variables?

[Enkita mody]

R Gle wrote:The base class Mammal has a String variable called name.
The subclass, Zebra, also has a variable called name.

Why does this compile? What am I missing? Doesn't Zebra inherit the superclass member variables?

It is called hiding.if you want to use superclass's name in subclass then write super.name in subclass.