Please teach me the rules in STATIC METHOD and STATIC VARIABLE.
You can count the rules in NON-STATIC METHOD also, only if you want to post. But I need the rules in declaring STATIC METHOD AND STATIC VARIABLE. Thank you.
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What are the rules in using Static Method and Static Variable? HELP!
Please teach me the rules in STATIC METHOD and STATIC VARIABLE.
You can count the rules in NON-STATIC METHOD also, only if you want to post. But I need the rules in declaring STATIC METHOD AND STATIC VARIABLE. Thank you.
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Re: What are the rules in using Static Method and Static Variable? HELP!
Exactly what rules are you hoping people to tell you? As far as I know there are no strict rules like "thou shalt not ....."
However, there are situations where you can use/call static or non-static methods. For a static method you can call it directly on the class or an object of that class. For non-static methods you must create an instance of that class first.
Foo.staticMethod(); // OK Foo f = new Foo() f.staticMethod(); // OK Foo.nonStaticMethod(); // ERROR f.nonStaticMethod(); // OK
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Re: What are the rules in using Static Method and Static Variable? HELP!
A static variable is a variable that is shared across all instances of a class.
A static method is a method that can be called on a class and usually does not require the class to be instantiated.
Re: What are the rules in using Static Method and Static Variable? HELP!
Static methods neither require an instance of the class nor can they implicitly access the data (or this, self, Me, etc.) of such an instance. A static method is distinguished in some programming languages with the static keyword placed somewhere in the method's signature.
In statically typed languages such as Java, static methods are called "static" because they are resolved statically (i.e. at compile time) based on the class they are called on and not dynamically as in the case with instance methods which are resolved polymorphically based on the runtime type of the object. Therefore, static methods cannot be overridden.[9]
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