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C# C# Objects Inheritance Inheritance in Code

2:34 I don't understand why all of this got renamed...

He said "To avoid any confusion, I'll rename this to 'x'. On the contrary, this made everything more confusing. I understood everything until that point in the video (2:34)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The variable name was originally "point", so the confusion that renaming it to "x" is intended to avoid is possibly mistaking it as still being of the "Point" (capital "P") class. It had previously been a Point object before being changed to a MapLocation object.