Re: Casts and special things of the Java language

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Casts and special things of the Java language
Date	2011-04-06 12:32 -0400
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Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Because methods are accessed using dynamic links, as I said earlier.
> Casting to another type which is a subclass of a class does not modify
> methods, but only variables!

"Static" has a particular meaning in Java.

These aren't usually called "links".

Subtypes do *not* modify variables in their supertypes.  They do override 
supertype methods, potentially, but they don't "modify" methods, either.  This 
is rather the opposite of what you suppose.

-- 
Lew
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Casts and special things of the Java language Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> - 2011-04-02 22:04 +0200
  Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 17:22 -0400
  Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-02 21:31 -0700
    Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> - 2011-04-03 11:16 +0200
      Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Merciadri Luca <merciadriluca@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 09:01 -0700
        Re: Casts and special things of the Java language markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-03 10:53 -0700
          Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Merciadri Luca <merciadriluca@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 11:28 -0700
            Re: Casts and special things of the Java language markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-03 13:35 -0700
              Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> - 2011-04-03 22:58 +0200
            Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-06 12:32 -0400

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