I'm brand new to Java and we're learning about inheritance and subclasses. In the text and online it is said that subclasses do not inherit constructors from their respective superclasses; however in a quiz question we were asked the output of the following code;
class Food {
Food() { printFlavor(); }
void printFlavor() { System.out.println("bland"); }
}
class Pepper extends Food {
void printFlavor() { System.out.println("spicy"); }
}
public class Lunch {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Food lunch = new Pepper();
}
}
I assumed that since constructors are not inherited that the output should be nothing; because the compiler would use the default constructor for Pepper; however this was incorrect. Am I missing something glaringly obvious? Running it myself I can see that it uses the constructor for Food, since it calls the printFlavor subroutine, but I can't understand why if subclasses don't inherit constructors.
