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TIFU by not using objects in my object-oriented programming coursework (lemmy.ca)
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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To expand on that you can never instantiate an object of type answer07 since it's a static class.

(For the students here the "static" modifier means "it's on the class, not the object". Non-static will only be accessible as a "obj.whatever" but static is accessible by "Class.whatever")

[–] schema@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is the class declared static? I assume the "...ic class Answer07" at the top stands for "public class Answer07".

I don't think java supports top level static classes (it does have nested static classes, though).

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

It looks like exactly 4 characters are missing, so public and static would fit, but I never saw static instead of public static, so I think you're right. On the other hand, I don't use Java anymore and couldn't be bothered about such details