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On 09/07/2011 02:33 AM, Cleaver Greene wrote:

> Why doesn't this line compile?

> Television bigScreen = new Television("Toshiba", 55);

> public class Television
> {
>      public int SCREEN_SIZE;
>      char MANUFACTURER;
>
>      public Television(char tvMANUFACTURER, int tvSCREEN_SIZE)
>      {
>          MANUFACTURER = tvMANUFACTURER;
>          SCREEN_SIZE = tvSCREEN_SIZE;
>      }
You have declared the formal parameters of the sole constructor of a 
Television object to be of type (char, int).
The actual parameters you attempt to use in a call to this constructor 
are of type (String, int).