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Jorge Kalil
1,832 Pointshow to I initialize numSides = 4 in the constructor for the Polygon class?
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges { class Polygon { public readonly int NumSides;
public Polygon(int numSides)
{
NumSides = numSides;
}
class Square : Polygon
{
public readonly int SideLength;
}
public Square(int sideLength) : base(int numSides)
{
SideLength = sideLength;
}
}
}
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
class Polygon
{
public readonly int NumSides;
public Polygon(int numSides)
{
NumSides = numSides;
}
class Square : Polygon
{
public readonly int SideLength;
}
public Square(int sideLength) : base(int numSides)
{
SideLength = sideLength;
}
}
}
1 Answer
Steven Parker
229,788 Points
Just pass it as the argument to the base constructor:
public Square(int sideLength) : base(4)