[Laszlo-dev] How to fake yourself out in Java

[Henry Minsky]

I wrote a class which looked like this

class LibraryCompilation {
    ImportCompiler  importCompiler;
    File infile;
    String outfile;
    String liburl;
    Element element;

    LibraryCompilation (ImportCompiler ImportCompiler, File infile,
String outfile, String liburl, Element element) {
        this.importCompiler  = importCompiler;
        this.infile = infile;
        this.outfile = outfile;
        this.liburl = liburl;
        this.element = element;
    }

I named the first arg to the constructor "ImportCompiler" instead of
"importCompiler". The code compiled fine, but the
value of the "importCompiler" slot was always null. Only took about
fifteen or twenty minutes to figure this out :-(

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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com