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Goldy Lukka

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Goldy Lukka is a Java Developer and an Entrepreneur. He is Founder of xyling.com.

Instance Variables Hiding

Posted: Sep 15, 2004 12:46 PM

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If methods with the same signatures or member variables with the same name exist in ancestor and descendant classes, the Java keyword super allows access members of the ancestor. But what if you do not use the keyword super in the descendant class? In case of methods, this is called method overriding and only the code of the descendant's method will execute. But when both classes have a member variable with the same name, it may cause a confusion and create hard to find bugs.

Author Yakov Fain has written an article (code samples included) for workaround. Refer to the title of this post

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