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Posted by saddy on January 31, 2001 at 1:37 PM

Hi alex,
in object oriented language every instance variables has to be associated with some object, but static methods are called without objects that is with there class names , now if u are makeing any changes in non-static instance variables than with which objects are they associated.
u can make changes in the static vatiables because they are associated with the whole class and not with some particular objects.
with the similar reason u can not call any non-static method from the static method.

thanx
saddy
> Why can't you access non-static variables from a static context (e.g. the main method). In other words, what would be the consequences of doing this if it was allowed?

> thanx

> Alex






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