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C# C# Objects Inheritance Inheritance

Jorge Kalil
Jorge Kalil
1,832 Points

how to I initialize numSides = 4 in the constructor for the Polygon class?

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges { class Polygon { public readonly int NumSides;

    public Polygon(int numSides)
    {
        NumSides = numSides;
    }
    class Square : Polygon
    {
        public readonly int SideLength;
    }
    public Square(int sideLength) : base(int numSides)
    {
         SideLength = sideLength;
    }

}

}

Polygon.cs
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Polygon
    {
        public readonly int NumSides;

        public Polygon(int numSides)
        {
            NumSides = numSides;
        }
        class Square : Polygon
        {
            public readonly int SideLength;
        }
        public Square(int sideLength) : base(int numSides)
        {
             SideLength = sideLength;
        }

    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

:point_right: Just pass it as the argument to the base constructor:

    public Square(int sideLength) : base(4)