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Debugging Strategies

Potential problems with state objects:

State incorrectly modified by modifer methods.

State incorrectly represented by accessor methods.

Need:

A way to see the state of the object.

Means:

public String toString ( )

• Create one “toString” method per class. 

• Use it to put a reference to

object directly in:

System.out.println ( );

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