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C# C# Objects Inheritance Inheritance

Ali Gorur
Ali Gorur
1,073 Points
Posted by Ali Gorur
Ali Gorur
1,073 Points

Someone help please. Stuck on this for a long time now! :'(

Polygon.cs(15,26): error CS0201: Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, await, and new object expressions can be used as a statement Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings

Polygon.cs 
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(4)

        {
            SideLength : sideLength;
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points

You are soooo close! It looks like you just have a typo.

You used a colon (":") as an assignment operator instead of an equal-sign ("=") in your new constructor.