with any particular object of this class. This means that it is a method that one can call even if no
objects are created. One such method is the main method of all Java programs.
It is known that the functions of a class are defi ned only once and they can be called by an object of the
class, but static functions are those functions which belong to the class only. Static members can be either
functions or static data. Static data members (fi eld ⫹ method) are sometimes known as class variables
or class methods as they belong to whole of the class.
7.7.1 Static Member Functions
The various points about the static ...
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