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From: Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help
Subject: Re: Instantiate an abstract class
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 01:01:31 +0200
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Lew wrote:

> On 04/06/2011 12:26 PM, Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:
>> getClass().newInstance();
> 
> You left out the object on which to call 'getClass()'.  How do you get an 
> instance on which to call the method?

I was quoting
>>> AFoo a = new (this).getClass();
so an educated guess would be "this".

> What if the constructor is not parameterless?

I assumed that there aren't any parameters, since there aren't
any in the text I quoted:
>>> AFoo a = new (this).getClass();


Regards, Lothar
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