Re: It doesn't like 'super' where ever I put it.

From:
Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:24:11 -0600
Message-ID:
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Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> writes:

bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> writes:

On 6/10/2012 7:02 AM, Jim Janney wrote:

bilsch<bilsch01@gmail.com> writes:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)


Try changing

     public void CalcFrame1() {

to

     public CalcFrame1() {


OK. Thanks. Can you tell me why that makes a difference?


Constructors are fundamentally different from ordinary methods, so most
object-oriented languages use a different syntax for them. In Java, a
constructor definition looks like a method, but without an explicit
return type and using a name that matches the class name. In other
languages the syntax may be different -- for example, in Python the name
is always __init__ -- but the underlying idea is the same: constructors
are not ordinary methods and take a different syntax.

Why are constructors different? Most classes have some code that you
want to run whenever a new object is created, and it would be tedious to
have to call it explicitly every time. I used to mimic OOP in C and you
had to do things like

    struct Foo* foo = (struct Foo*) malloc(sizeof(struct Foo));
    foo->init();

Forcing all object creation to go through a constructor makes the code
simpler and more reliable. And even when a class has a constructor that
appears to be empty, there's still some code that the compiler generates
automatically the make the new object a proper instance of its class.


The point to remember is that a constructor does not create an object:
the new operator is responsible for creating the object. Along the way
it kindly calls the constructor, giving you an opportunity to do some
extra setup work. Understand this and you'll know why a constructor may
throw an exception but it can never return null.

Wandering off the original subject, I still notice allegedly professional
programmers writing code like this:

    Foo foo = null;
    try {
        foo = new Foo("my resource name"); // may throw exception
        process(foo); // may throw exception
    } finally {
        if (foo != null) {
           foo.close();
        }
    }

It isn't actually wrong, but it makes me wonder what else they don't
understand.

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Jim Janney

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