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From: Paul Murray
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00

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"Tim Cross" <tcross@northnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Paul Murray" <pmurray@nospam.bigpond.com> writes:
>
> > These two constructors
>
> Umm - I don't think these are both constructors! A constructor cannot
> have a return type and they have to have the same name.
>
> >  public as2q1class(String thestudent_name, int theassign_one, int
> > theassign_two, int thetest_one, int thetest_two)
> >  public void set(String newstudent_name, int newassign_one, int
> > newassign_two, int newtest_one, int newtest_two)
> >
> > Are identical. Why do you have two? The names that you call the
variables
> > don't matter, only the types do.
>
> They are not identical - one is a constructor, the other is a normal
> > class method.

Duh! Pure carelessness on my part. I will have to pay better attention on
the exam tomorrow.

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