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Ankur Kulkarni
4,677 PointsWhy Class Animal didn't need a constructor unlike Class Dog?
In the video, Ben creates a Class Animal and then goes on to create a Class Dog which extends Class Animal. In the main(), a new Dog object was created and in the Class Dog, a constructor was needed to be declared. But, why was there no need to declare a constructor for Class Animal? I thought that as we hadn't created a Class Animal object, we hence didn't need a constructor. But I checked on IDEA and even though I created a new Animal object, I was never prompted to create a constructor or given any errors.