Hum, I think you are not right Mike. You have to consider the hierarchy of the classes of the object being compared. Variable o is declared as Object, but it holds a reference to a ICheck instance. ICheck extends Check, which extends Object, just like any other
java class. Therefore it is a instance of any of these classes, and will passa the instanceof comparation for any of these.
If you compare any object with the class Object (xxx instanceof Object), the comparation will be true, because every object extends Object. But remember, the object in the left MUST BE of the same class or a subclass of the class on the right.
Hope I've made myself clear.
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Pedro Ivo