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15,967 PointsConstructor Name
Hey,
Can i name constructor diffrently than name of class?
3 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsThe short answer... No. And like Thomas, I'm curious as to "Why you would want to?"
If you did, you probably wouldn't be able to tell a constructor from a method. Have a look at this brief mention in the Oracle Docs.
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 PointsI don't know why you'd want to, but you can have a method that returns a new instance of the class like this:
class A {
//Default constructor
public A () {}
public static A B() {
return new A();
}
public void print() {
System.out.println("hello");
}
}
class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
A a2 = A.B();
A a1 = new A();
a2.print();
a1.print();
}
}
thehuskyena
1,792 PointsNo, the name of the constructor must always be equal to the name of the class.