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Questions and Comments

Posted by Mike Zhou on 18 Sep 1998, 7:22 AM

Bill

I am a regular reader of your Design Techniques column. It is great. Thank you for all your efforts.

My question is that in you Worker.clone() method, why the name attribute is not copied?

Also I think all class should implement toString() method. My reason is very pratical. When you do debug, at any stage, by

System.out.println(worker.toString());

you can see the states of the instance. I have implemented the method in all my classes. I found it very helpful in my debugging process, expecially in the distributed computing envirronment.

Looking forword to hearing your comments.

Mike Zhou
Detroit MI

• Answer and Comment Bill Venners 01 Oct 1998, 5:48 AM (2)
  • clone() & toString() Ashish Sahni 02 Oct 1998, 11:50 AM (1)
    • toString() Reginald Braithwaite-Lee 08 Oct 1998, 7:22 AM (0)