--- Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does staticness preclude extensibility? I assume final-ity would, but we didn't declare any methods final, AFAIK.
Strictly speaking, no; but static methods do not support polymorphism and inheritance in the way that instance methods do. Static methods cannot be overridden in Java. check out
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2001-05/01-qa-0504-oo.html
or to get the exact scoop:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/classes.doc.html#228745
Phil
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