If a superclass is static and its subclass isn't, will the subclassbe static?

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If a superclass is static and its subclass isn't, will the subclass be
static?

public static class A {
}

public class A1 extends A {
}

 

[Chris Head]

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If a superclass is static and its subclass isn't, will the subclass be
static?

public static class A {
}

public class A1 extends A {
}

Hi,
According to:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/1999-08/01-qa-static2.html
....
"You declare a top-level class at the top level as a member of a
package. Each top-level class corresponds to its own java file sporting
the same name as the class name.

A top-level class is by definition already top-level, so there is no
point in declaring it static; it is an error to do so. The compiler will
detect and report this error."

It doesn't make any sense to declare a top-level class as static,
because it's implicitly static. There is no outer class for it to carry
a "this" reference to.

Chris
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[P.Hill]

If a superclass is static and its subclass isn't, will the subclass be
static?

public static class A {
}

The above is only valid when defining an inner class, so I'm thinking
you are confused about the intended meaning of the word static on a class.

-Paul

 

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Hi,
According to:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/1999-08/01-qa-static2.html
...
"You declare a top-level class at the top level as a member of a
package. Each top-level class corresponds to its own java file sporting
the same name as the class name.

A top-level class is by definition already top-level, so there is no
point in declaring it static; it is an error to do so. The compiler will
detect and report this error."

It doesn't make any sense to declare a top-level class as static,
because it's implicitly static. There is no outer class for it to carry
a "this" reference to.

Chris

My mistake. I forgot to mention that class A and A1 are nested classes.
So will A1 inherit A's static?

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

My mistake. I forgot to mention that class A and A1 are nested classes.
So will A1 inherit A's static?

Have you tried it?

/L

 

[Kevin McMurtrie]

My mistake. I forgot to mention that class A and A1 are nested classes.
So will A1 inherit A's static?

No. Static isn't an attribute of a class. It changes the way the
compiler treats the class; more like a compiler shortcut.

 

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

My mistake. I forgot to mention that class A and A1 are nested classes.
So will A1 inherit A's static?

Not the way you think. The non-static nested class will become an
inner class, with the synthesized reference to the parent class
object.