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Start your free trialIlya Sikharulidze
Courses Plus Student 1,073 PointsPath _path
I don't understand why do we have: private readonly Path _path Can someone please explain! And also, why when we create "Invader" constructor we write: Invader(Path path) ?
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsLet's break that down:
- private this will only be available to code inside the class
- readonly after the instance is created, it cannot be changed
- Path it is an item of type "Path"
- _path and it's name is "
_path
"
And when you create an instance, you pass the Path to the constructor, which is why it has that parameter. Inside the constructor, the field value is set ("_path = path;
"), and it will be permanent for the life of the instance.
Cristina Rosales
10,929 PointsCristina Rosales
10,929 Pointsdoes it read as private readonly Path _path' because we are using _path as the attribute name and the argument name from the constructor?
would private readonly Path _path = _path; technically work (is what's going on under the hood) aswell?