Java Point, difference between getX() and point.x
I am confused to as why the Java Point class takes in two int paramaters and the getX() and getY() methods return doubles. For example I could define a Point Point p = new Point(4,6); If I were to call.. p.getX(); It would return 4.0. and if I were to call p.x; I would get 4. Any reason for this? There are Point2D.Double and Point2D.Float classes that extend Point2D which is a superclass of Point and they need to be able to work with floating point values. Note that there is also a setLocation( double, double ) . Point2D is an abstract class that implements the distance calculation for points,