Given classes A, B, and C where B extends A and C extends B and where all classes implement the instance method void doIt(). Is it possible for the version of the doIt() method in class A to be called by an instance of class B? What is the syntax?

 

With questions like these, it helps to mentally draw out the hierarchy of classes to make it easier to visualize which class extends which. The hierarchy is basically in alphabetical order – with A on top, then B, and then C. That’s easy enough to imagine.

It turns out that what the questions asks is not possible with an instance of B. Because B overrides the doIt() method, calling the A class’s version of the doit() method is not possible with an instance of B.

However, this is possible within the definition of one of the methods of B using a call to super. The syntax for this would be super.doIt()

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