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When
we create a reference, we want to connect it to a new
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object
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String
s = new String (“CS202!”); //or
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List
obj = new List(); //default
constructor…
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We do
this with the new keyword
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This
allocates memory for a new string and provides an
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initial
value for the character string
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And,
like in C++ this causes the constructor for the class type
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to be
implicitly invoked
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New
places the objects on the heap (which is not as flexible
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as
allowing objects to be allocoated on the stack)
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It
is not possible to request local objects of a class or to pass
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objects
of a class by value to a function (or as the return
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value).
This is because we are always working with a
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reference
to the object – which is what gets passed (by value)
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