Question

[chetna_jain]

class Outer {
private Outer() {
System.out.println("Executing Step1");
}
public void Outer() {
System.out.println("Executing Step2");
}
}
public class q2 extends Outer {
public static void main (String[] args) {
Outer t = new Outer();
t.Outer();
}
}

what is the output of this code and why is it so.

[Valentin Crettaz]

The code does not compile since the default constructor of Outer is private and thus not usable outside the Outer class.
If you change the modifier private to public for the default constructor the output is
Executing Step1
Executing Step2
which makes sense, the first line is written when the constructor is called and the second when you call the method Outer !
But this is poor design to name a method the same name as the class name since it can be misleading and error-prone.

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Valentin Crettaz
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform

[Jose Botella]

This code doesn't compile because the constructor is private.
Yes it seems that the compiler doesn't complain having a method with the same name as the Class or even an identifier for a field:
int Outer; //I have checked it out