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Solution Review: Reference and Local Variables

Solution Review: Reference and Local Variables

The solution to the Reference and Local Variables exercise is explained in this lesson.

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Coding solution

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public class RLVariables {
private int mySecretNumber = 10;
public void displaySecret() {
mySecretNumber = 45;
RLVariables secret = new RLVariables();
System.out.println("Reference variable accessing instance variable: " + secret.mySecretNumber);
System.out.println("Local Variable: " + mySecretNumber);
secret.mySecretNumber = mySecretNumber;
System.out.println("Reference variable accessing instance variable that points to the local variable: " + secret.mySecretNumber);
}
public static void main(String [] args){
RLVariables notSoPrivate = new RLVariables();
notSoPrivate.displaySecret();
}
}

Explanation

This output is expected. We can ...