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  • Subject: Re: Final and Static
  • From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 07:08:05 -0800

Tom Tufankjian wrote:
> 
> This is a newbee question:  What is the difference between static and final
> when describing a field?

Uh, no, "static" means that a method or variable is scoped to an entire
class (and therefore can be accessed without instantiating the class,
and used for communication between instances), while "final" means that
subclasses cannot override it, and that (for a variable) it cannot be
changed ONCE INITIALIZED (note that this means an uninitialized final
variable can be assigned a value exactly once).

Methods and variables can be both static and final.

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