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Re: Errr..

A static method can be invoked from anywhere the class is visible. If the class is not explicitly specified, then it searches the enclosing scopes looking for a suitable match. Instance method require an object instance to invoke including an implicit 'this'. BTW, you _can_ invoke a static using an object instance, the class used is the class of the instance.

Don Bate
At 9:32 PM -0600 1/13/06, Michael Hall wrote:

On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Matt wrote:


You seem to be stating that a static method cannot be invoked from an
instance method. Do you hold true to this statement? In this case, how
would a static method ever be invoked? Would you please provide an example
of this?  This time, your example would be expected to fail compilation.

No I got it backwards a instance method can't be invoked from a static, like main. The other way a static method would be invoked would be from another static method, or a static initializer I think, not tested real recently.

Mike Hall        mikehall at spacestar dot net
http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall
http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative



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