What does this code output and why does it do that?

[high radish]

Here is the question:

** Consider the following class definition:**

public class Student {
 public String getFood() {
 return "Pizza";
 }
 public String getInfo() {
 return "Studying";
 }
}
public class GradStudent extends Student {
 public String getFood() {
 return "Taco";
 }
public String getInfo() {
 super.getInfo();
 return "Eating";
 }
}

What is printed when the following code is executed?

Student s = new GradStudent();
System.out.println(s.getInfo());

(A) Pizza
(B) Taco
(C) Studying
(D) Eating
(E) Studying
Eating

When I followed the code, I saw that super.getInfo() returns "Studying" and then the next line (return "Eating") will return Eating. I'm confused why the answer is only eating. Doesn't "studying" also get returned? And shouldn't it be the first thing returned? This is very confusing and I'm sorry if its a dumb question

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[proper echo]

super.getInfo() is called in a void

nothing is done with its return value

[tender pecan]

Are you calling another method from another class?

[proper echo]

you only return "Eating", because the return statement only says to return "Eating"

[high radish]

It's being called from the main method

[high radish]

But when something is returned, doesn't the execution of the code end there?

[proper echo]

the execution of the method that is returning ends
when you do super.getInfo, the "return" statement from that method ends the Student.getInfo() method, but does not end the GradStudent.getInfo() method

[tender pecan]

it should print eating then

[high radish]

So studying is returned, but we just don't do anything with it?

[proper echo]

no

[high radish]

sorry I meant studying*

[proper echo]

ok then yes
"Studying" is retrieved from the Student.getInfo() method, and nothing is done with it
then the GradStudent.getInfo() method returns only "Eating", because that is what it is hard-coded to do

simply retrieving a value from another method does not add that value to this method's return value

methods only return that which is actually in the return statement

[high radish]

Ohh, that makes more sense.

So in this situation the only way to get "studying" was if we did something like:

return super.getInfo();

[proper echo]

yes

[tender pecan]

yes like that

[high radish]

wow that makes more sense

thank you so much

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