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answer for static method

Posted by subramanya on August 01, 1999 at 10:34 PM

> I was wondering why interfaces cannot have any static methods
> on them!

> Thanks
> Pradeep

> the methods provided by the interface to explore the generalized/
user defined functionalities. so that the procedure defined is volatile
and not suposed to reveal the previous state to provide that
static method facility in the interface. here that refrences are
made use off rather than the instance.