To determine the result of the given code, let's go through each line and understand the behavior:
- The code starts with the declaration of the
Base
class.
- Line 2 declares a public static final variable
FOO
with the value "foo".
- Line 3 starts the
main
method.
- Line 4 creates a new instance of the
Base
class and assigns it to a variable b
.
- Line 5 creates a new instance of the
Sub
class (which extends Base
) and assigns it to a variable s
.
- Line 6 prints the value of
Base.FOO
, which is "foo".
- Line 7 prints the value of
Sub.FOO
, which is "bar".
- Line 8 prints the value of
b.FOO
, which is "foo". Here, b
refers to an instance of the Base
class, so it accesses the FOO
variable of the Base
class.
- Line 9 prints the value of
s.FOO
, which is "bar". Here, s
refers to an instance of the Sub
class, so it accesses the FOO
variable of the Sub
class.
- Line 10 prints the value of
((Base)s).FOO
, which is "bar". Here, we cast s
to type Base
, so it accesses the FOO
variable of the Base
class.
- The code ends with line 11.
Based on the above analysis, the result of the code will be:
D. foobarfoobarfoo
This is because the first four print statements (lines 6-9) output "foo", "bar", "foo", and "bar" respectively. The fifth print statement (line 10) outputs "bar" because the cast (Base)s
allows access to the FOO
variable of the Base
class.