Return type for the method is missing?

[finite venture]

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[spiral pelican]

void is a return type, public is an access modifier

so like. exactly as the error says

@solid willow

[solid willow]

fair enough

but

[spiral pelican]

Person here is not a method, it's a constructor

same for Bil3 in the above method

they have the same name as the class and don't have return types

[solid willow]

so i cant create objects in there?

[spiral pelican]

wdym

you can, but you can't return anything from constructors

you can't call constructors like methods, so you can't really extract a return value
constructors are called automatically via new

btw, public Bil3() {} as an empty constructor is unnecessary. if you don't have any constructors, java adds a public empty constructor for you

[solid willow]

jesus christ, but ok i think i understand somewhat, sorry its literally my first week in this Uni course so im still figuring it out

[solid willow]

yeah i was gonna have something in there, at some point

[spiral pelican]

basically constructors are special methods that

• have the same name as the class
• don't have return types
  and have access to
• this()
• super()

if you provide a return type for Bil3 or Person, for example, that turns it into a method that just happens to have the same name as the class, and you would be able to use it like any other method, but you wouldn't be able to use it as a constructor

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