' this. '

[helloworld]

I would like to know for this abstract,

public Temperature(double number) {
this.number = number;


what does the 'this' refer to?

Thanks.

[serjant]

this refers to the current class,in your case this.number monitors to class variable which was declared in the class which is assigned to a parameter double number.

[Nicholas Jordan]

static always same for all classes. this only applies to classes generated with new keyword.

You will sometimes hear of this discussed as stack and heap.....