Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Oracle/Google demonstrate human beings cannot write 10 lines of code without making a mistake ;) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: <24092c48-e970-473b-bace-2a2274104754@googlegroups.com> References: <721bd$4fbe236e$5419acc3$390@cache1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1337878728 19389 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2012 16:58:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 16:58:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <721bd$4fbe236e$5419acc3$390@cache1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14780 Skybuck Flying wrote: > Just out of curiosity, if private already means it's private, then what does > the static keyword mean ? > > I guess it means the same as a class method in Delphi, which means it's > defined only once and all classes share it ?!? > > This might have to do with "virtual method tables" which java might be using > ?!? In this case a virtual method entry would be missing to save memory ??? No, and no. and from your earlier question: -- Lew