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Lawrence Babay
6,941 Pointsprivate Game game;
How come in Prompter.java, instead of private String game is use, private Game game was used? Why?
Thanks!
5 Answers
Timothy Hilley
2,292 Pointsgame is not a string, it is an object. Prompter is not taking strings, it is taking instanciated objects.
Michael Clark
16,324 PointsHi Passavudh
A new game object has already been instantiated in hangman.java. In hangman.java that game object is being passed into the promoter constructor. The private Game game in prompter is just a private member variable that the passed in game object gets assigned to to be used by the promoter methods
Fahad Mutair
10,359 Pointshi Lawrence Babay ,
private Game game it will make object from Game.java class
private String game it will make String variable
Passavudh Sabpisal
4,474 Pointswhy don't we use (Game game = new Game()) for instatiating the object, I'm kind of confused pls help. What is the different between Game game = new Game() and private Game game
Lawrence Babay
6,941 PointsThank you all!
Passavudh Sabpisal
4,474 Pointswhy don't we use (Game game = new Game()) for instatiating the object, I'm kind of confused pls help. What is the different between Game game = new Game() and private Game game