RE: Explicit type casting.

1999-11-03 Thread Jari . P . Kinnunen
You can't cast upwards i.e. there is no way to cast A to a child B. Class A doesn't know anything about B. It works other way round. It is possible to cast B downwards to A, because B includes the information of A. Jari > -Original Message- > From: EXT SABYASACHI S GUPTA > [mai

Re: Explicit type casting.

1999-11-03 Thread Michael Sinz
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:11:16 +0530 (IST), SABYASACHI S GUPTA wrote: > >I have 3 files to test this. > >//A.java >public class A { > public void method(){ > System.out.println("In A"); > } >} > > >//B.java >public class B extends A { > > public void method() >