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static variables in java

Posted by mark on November 04, 2000 at 7:27 PM

> What do you want to achieve declaring a varialbe as static within a method?

in C functions, static variables let you count each time the function is called. for example, the following code would print out 1 2 3. Java doesnt let you do this because main() is a member function and they want you to make all static variables members of the program class. (C has more power here than java)

static int statFunc(){
static int i=0;
i++;
cout<<"i ";
}
void main(){
statFunc();
statFunc();
statFunc();
}