Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: About java program. Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:12:34 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <324f929f-772e-4004-81e1-6b454cdae794@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net UzdsvM+OEtqv0pGJy6BgagFdJPD/a/jEM+dvKs0LarzpF3BPk= Cancel-Lock: sha1:6vjP+dgt0dhaIoTPld/GdVFdP6U= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: <324f929f-772e-4004-81e1-6b454cdae794@googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130615-1, 15.06.2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:24421 On 15.06.2013 22:38, rajbhaumik@gmail.com wrote: > import acm.program.*; > public class askYesNoQuestion extends ConsoleProgram { > public void run(){ > String str=readLine("Would you like instructions"); > println(askYesNoquestion(str)); > } > 7. private boolean askYesNoquestion (String str){ > if(str.equals("yes"))return true; > if(str.equals("no")) return false; > } > > } > the false is that , the program cannot be executed, because no 7 > said, this method must return a type of boolean. And, do you have a particular question or are you just informing us of your compiler error? Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/