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C# C# Objects Object-Oriented Programming Initialization

Richard Juliano
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Richard Juliano
Courses Plus Student 74 Points
Posted by Richard Juliano
Richard Juliano
Courses Plus Student 74 Points

little confused I changed the public to readonly and it still says did I delete the public modifier?

am I doing this wrong?

Frog.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Frog
    {
        readonly int TongueLength;
    }
}

2 Answers

Scott Laughead
Scott Laughead
12,750 Points
Scott Laughead
Scott Laughead
12,750 Points

I think you're supposed to keep the field public so it looks like this: 

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
    {
        class Frog
        {
            public readonly int TongueLength;
        }
    }
Daniel W
Daniel W
1,341 Points
Daniel W
Daniel W
1,341 Points

Public and private keywords just specify what classes can access the variable. If it's public it means other classes can access the variable. If it's private only the class it's in can access it. If you have no declaration, the default access for would be the most restricted access you could declare for that member.

So with this said, variables can still be "readonly", regardless of their access modifiers. It just means that the variables cannot be written over, and thus they are sort of like constants in a way.