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Let’s
clarify our creation of objects in Java
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Instances
of a primitive type (int, float, etc.) are not
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references
and don’t need to be created using new
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In
fact, we can’t create them using new (except for the
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case
of an array of primitive types)
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When
we create an object of a user defined type (i.e.,
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a
class type) we are in fact creating references which
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means
new must be used to actually allocate memory
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for
the instance of the type expected
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We
can then use references to an object using the (.)
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between
the object reference and the member name:
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Objectreference.member
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