Object-Oriented Thought Process, The, Second Edition

Constructors

This Cabbie class contains two constructors. We know they are constructors because they have the same name as the class: Cabbie. The first constructor is the default constructor:

public Cabbie() {

      name = null;
      myCab = null;

   }

Technically, this is not a default constructor. The compiler will provide a default constructor if you do not specify a constructor for this class. By definition, the reason it is called a default constructor here is because it is a constructor with no arguments. If you provide a constructor with arguments, the system will not provide a default constructor. The rule is that the default constructor is only provided if you provide no constructors.

In this constructor, the attributes Name and myCab are set to ...