Your method returns a Point because you return result which is an instance of Point. If you want a double (value) for the distance you should do it this way:
//euclidean distance (?)
double distance (Point other) {
Point result = new Point();
result.ycoord = Math.abs (ycoord - other.ycoord);
result.xcoord = Math.abs (xcoord- other.xcoord);
result.distance = Math.sqrt((result.ycoord)*(result.ycoord) +(result.xcoord)*(result.xcoord));
System.out.println(result);
return result.distance;
}
}