Easy Begginer Question (final static)

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  18 years ago

  by qwijibow

  Chris Stones

  England Nottingham, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  HI,
  I gotta write a console java program to accept a value from the user (pints)
  and convert it to litres, then output the answer,,
  

  
  and i just wanted to know,
  

  
  what is the diference between static and final ??
  

  
  WHEN i declaire a
  

  
  Double Pints = 0;
  

  
  in the main class (so that it is global)
  

  
  WHY will it not let me use the variable in the public static main ? unless i declaire it as a
  static double Pints ?????
  

  
  what does the static mean ?

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  18 years ago

  by Michael H

  Michael H

  Chicago, USA, United States

  Joined 19 years ago

  
  final means that a variable or field can't be changed, a method can't be overriden
  and a class can't be subclasses, when final is used as a modifier in those
  situations.
  

  
  static means that a
  inner class is not associated with containing class,
  method is invoked with class name (instance not required)
  field/global variable - only one instance of field/variable no matter
  how many instances of the class are made. accessed with class name.
  

  
  That was taken almost word for word from Java in a Nutshell, my
  favorite book.
  

  
  Hope that helps,
  

  
  - Mike H
  

  
  

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