Chapter 8. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
—Evelyn Waugh
Is it a world to hide virtues in?
—William Shakespeare
But what, to serve our private ends, Forbids the cheating of our friends?
—Charles Churchill
This above all: to thine own self be true.
—William Shakespeare
Don’t be “consistent,” but be simply true.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• Encapsulation and data hiding.
• To use keyword this
.
• To use static
variables and methods.
• To import static
members of a class.
• To use the enum
type to create sets of constants with unique identifiers.
• To declare enum
constants with parameters.
• To organize ...
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