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Gaurav - 01 Dec 2005 07:43 GMT

Hi .. kindly tell me the error in the following code

package test1;
public class Test1 {
static int x = 42;
}

package test2;
public class Test2 extends test1.Test1 {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println("x="+x); } }

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Roedy Green - 01 Dec 2005 08:12 GMT

>Hi .. kindly tell me the error in the following code

Please tell what the problem is, quoting the error message verbatim.
It is annoying to be given guessing games. Teachers give students
guessing games, not the reverse.

Presumably your problem is that x is default rather than protected
scope, thus classes in package test2 can't see it.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/scope.html

>package test1;
>public class Test1 {
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>public static void main(String args[]) {
>System.out.println("x="+x); } }

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