TIFU by not using objects in my object-oriented programming coursework (lemmy.ca)

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[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago

But answer07 is an object... Not sure what your teacher/ta disliked 😆

[-] schema@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

To be needlessly pedantic on this joke, answer07 in itself is not an object, but a class, a blueprint for objects. An instance of that class would be an object. Calling the static function main does also not create an instance of the class in the class loader.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

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")