C#•2y ago

✅ Inherited a class but the compiler does not accept it?

I've created two classes, Head and Knot. Head inherits Knot with another caveat of having an additional method on it, yet the compiler gives the error of "There is no argument given that corresponds to the required parameter '_coordinate' of 'Knot.Knot(Point)'". Am I misunderstanding something here?

//This is only to make the code more readable
public class Knot{
    public Point Coordinate{get;set;}
    
    public Knot(Point _coordinate){
        Coordinate = _coordinate;
    }

    //This method checks if the current knot is touching the previous knot in the rope in any way in a 3X3 grid
    //If true, the current knot is not supposed to move
    public bool Touch(Knot head){
        for(int scanX = -1; scanX < 2; scanX++){
            for(int scanY = -1; scanY < 2; scanY++){
                Point check = new Point(this.Coordinate.X + scanX, this.Coordinate.Y + scanY);
                if(check == head.Coordinate) return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
}

public class Head : Knot{

    void moveHead(string direction){
        //move head one step at a time
        if(direction is "U") Coordinate.X--;
        if(direction is "D") Coordinate.X++;
        if(direction is "L") Coordinate.Y--;
        if(direction is "R") Coordinate.Y++;
    }
}

//This is only to make the code more readable
public class Knot{
    public Point Coordinate{get;set;}
    
    public Knot(Point _coordinate){
        Coordinate = _coordinate;
    }

    //This method checks if the current knot is touching the previous knot in the rope in any way in a 3X3 grid
    //If true, the current knot is not supposed to move
    public bool Touch(Knot head){
        for(int scanX = -1; scanX < 2; scanX++){
            for(int scanY = -1; scanY < 2; scanY++){
                Point check = new Point(this.Coordinate.X + scanX, this.Coordinate.Y + scanY);
                if(check == head.Coordinate) return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
}

public class Head : Knot{

    void moveHead(string direction){
        //move head one step at a time
        if(direction is "U") Coordinate.X--;
        if(direction is "D") Coordinate.X++;
        if(direction is "L") Coordinate.Y--;
        if(direction is "R") Coordinate.Y++;
    }
}

13 Replies

Jayy•2y ago

How many constructors does knot have

phattanukiOP•2y ago

one the constructor is not also inherited? does head need it's own constructor?

Thinker•2y ago

yes It needs a constructor which calls : base(Point)

phattanukiOP•2y ago

huh...that's interesting...so even though I'm fully inhering from Knot... I still need my own constructor

Jayy•2y ago

Yes

phattanukiOP•2y ago

I've learned

Jayy•2y ago

I mean ya, how would it work otherwise

phattanukiOP•2y ago

it inherits Knots constructor? since it's the same object? and if I need something else, I can override it? but that's just my poor brain

Thinker•2y ago

constructors are not inherited

phattanukiOP•2y ago

roger

Jayy•2y ago

You are saying "the only way i can build a knot is with this constructor, then inheriting the class and not using that constructor. So there's a world where someone calls new Head() Which breaks the assertion that Knot must be created with that constructor If you added an empty constructor to Knot it would work

Hugh•2y ago

In my mind, as, I suspect, in @phattanuki's, I would have imagined that if Head doesn't have a constructor defined, it would default to:

public Head(Point _coordinate) : base(_coordinate) {}

public Head(Point _coordinate) : base(_coordinate) {}

(I get that it doesn't, but before I realised that, I felt that this was a reasonable assumption)

Accord•2y ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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✅ Inherited a class but the compiler does not accept it?