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C# C# Objects Object-Oriented Programming Instantiation

Posted by A X
A X
12,842 Points

Tower tower = new Tower (); why is this convention used to create a new class?

I was told that writing Tower tower = new Tower () is less confusing than maybe elaborating more on what each of these same words mean and do. I'm not seeing this as less confusing...in fact, very difficult to follow:

Tower <---- the class name, basically telling the computer what type of variable we're creating here (this isn't an int or a string for example)

tower <---- the variable name

new Tower () <---- a new instance of the Tower class...aka the constructor, which acts like a factory to create variable instances of the Tower Class

If anything, why wouldn't you make it like this:

Tower_Class varTower = new Tower_Class ();

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,745 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,745 Points

You could do that if you want.

Assuming the class is defined appropriately, you certainly could write:

Tower_Class varTower = new Tower_Class ();

But once you get used to the syntax, you'll recognize classes and variables from how they are used (you seemed to be doing a good job of that already above). At that point, attaching "var" or "_Class" to the name will seem unnecessarily verbose.