Sentence wrong?

Question

Animal a=new Animal;
((Cat)a).makesound();

It can't work!!

Answer 1

Your code is casting Animal as a cat. Cat is a Animal not Animal is a cat. Here's a link for some reading on the subject.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~cannata/cs345/Class%20Notes/14%20Java%20Upcasting%20Downcasting.htm

Answer 2

what is it you want your code to do? make cat sounds?

Answer 3

This the sentence from the lesson "downcasting", I think so, but from the original it doesn't seem to work,lol...

Answer 4

Animal a=new Cat();
((Cat)a).makeSound();

maybe it works.