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Re: Question regarding methods and classes

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On 2011-10-23, Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2011 03:28:31 GMT, Linus Flustillbe
><admin@nacs.dyndns-office.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>>Does a method have to be part of a class that gets instatiated or can it
>>live in a class to be available to all other classes without
>>instantiation...it's available when it's imported?
>
> You can have static methods that can be called without creating any
> objects.  The class itself will get loaded and an invisible class
> object will be created with slots for all the static variables.
>
> This is a very basic feature of Java.  I suggest you get an text, even
> a badly out of date one, to explain such things.
> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/gettingstarted.html

Thanks Roedy.  I was just getting ahead of myself; thinking about "what
if" when I was still on the "what" topic.  As you can see from other
reponses to my question and my replies, I have figured it out for the
most part but still don't understand why I have to modify the import
statement... someone will probably say "that's just the way it has to
be" and if that's the case, that's fine.


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        Re: Question regarding methods and classes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-23 08:54 -0700
  Re: Question regarding methods and classes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-23 01:37 -0700
    Re: Question regarding methods and classes Linus Flustillbe <admin@nacs.dyndns-office.com> - 2011-10-23 13:49 +0000
      Re: Question regarding methods and classes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-02 01:23 -0700
  Re: Question regarding methods and classes Linus Flustillbe <admin@nacs.dyndns-office.com> - 2011-10-23 09:11 +0000

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