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2,299 Pointsreturn mDescription.compareTo(other.mDescription); Accessing private member ??!!
return mDescription.compareTo(other.mDescription); Accessing private member of the other class??!! Why we dont use other.getDescription()?
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Benjamin Barslev Nielsen
18,958 PointsThe code is not accessing a private member of another class. It is accessing the private member of another instance of the same class, and therefore we can access the field directly without using other.getDescription().