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From: Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Class assignment help
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:22:36 -0700
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On 7/21/14, 12:35 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:50:22 -0400, Tim Slattery <tim@risingdove.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> You'll need to assign them a dummy value (highName = "no
>> name yet";) or an empty string (secondHighName = "";) to get rid of
>
> null will keep it happy. You might later get an NullPointerException
> if you don't get a real value in there soon enough.
>
Oh ok, I didn't realize.  I thought I could just declare them like you 
do with an int or double...Thank you, I'll see if I can get it working 
now.

Scott