Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:16:03 -0500 From: Jason S Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:16:03 -0400 Message-ID: <2011041911160346799-jasonsavlov@mecom> References: <201104182005433244-jasonsavlov@mecom> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Double always returning 0.0 User-Agent: Unison/2.1.4 Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-oGbcRhXs0y5pXxzLUl3X+leaFIIlLUzmodYRSQsqtMkZDQSmhxEyclIc4I4BPwdW0W5GvQW8voLuObd!YqUhuddXRuuMnaSTy2FMbuBE+3AQkEbpOdpd0z3d5Wa8HrpZ3ooAEhFjY4Xuku0dikQ= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1718 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3133 On 2011-04-19 05:02:09 -0400, Screamin Lord Byron said: > On 19.04.2011 02:05, Jason S wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to get my program to return >> the correct value here. It always returns 0.0 even though I (think) that >> everything is declared/cast correctly... >> >> Code located at http://web.cs.sunyit.edu/~savlovj/CS249/pg472_8 > > Remember that instance variables aren't inherited. That is, you are > using values from Dog and Cat, rather than Pet, which are initialized to > their defaults. Yup, that was the problem. Got it working! (Sort of...) The weight for the cat keeps turning up as 0.000. -- Jason