thx, that worked.
public String toString()
Returns a string representation of this thread, including the
thread's name, priority, and thread group.
On Aug 9, 3:25 am, Michèle Garoche <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 5:33 am, ooostephen <[email protected]> wrote:> the lab
> titled 'DataTypePrintTest' creates a new Thread obj, and when
> > called its output is
> > Thread[Thread-0,5,main]
> > i wasn't able to understand the doc well enough to know what that
> > output means. of the three elements in the Thread array, the meaning
> > of the last two (, 5, main) remain unknown to me. i could guess, but
> > i'd like to *know* exactly what they mean.
>
> You should know by now that for an object the print/prinln methods
> uses the toString method of the object. So when you print a Thread,
> the print/println methods uses the toString method of Thread class.
> Now you can jump to javadoc class Thread and reads the toString
> method, you will know what it returns.
>
> Generally speaking, get an habit to jump directly to javadoc.
>
> Michèle Garoche
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