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Could someone please help me understand the code he's writing htere a bit better? Currently a 2nd year CS student, for reference.
Is he making a class inside a class there? I didn't know that was possible... And it seems connected to the "superclass" somehow too?
When he writes
BankAccount account = new BankAccount.Builder(1234L)...
Then he is first setting up the account variable which has the type "BankAccount"... Sure, makes sense. Then he goes "new" to call a constructor... and then he goes "BankAccount.Builder(...)"? It looks like he's somehow calling the constructor for the Builder class, which is inside the BankAccount class?
At the end there, I can also see him going "....build()" which returns an actual BankAccount object, so it it does seem to fit with the variable type... I'm just a bit confused about the steps he goes to get there.
Is putting the builder class inside the class it's supposed to build the standard way to do this?
(Sidenote; This still makes a lot more sense than the explanation of the Builder pattern we got last semester...)
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