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Chapter 4: Classes and Objects []

sense to associate a static variable with an object. We prefix static variables with the class name,

as follows:

Account.bankName = "Ealing Bank";

4.7 Instance and Static Methods

As well as instance and static variables, we can also have instance and static (or class) methods.

By default, all methods are instance methods. As we have seen in Section 4.2, instance methods

are invoked by prefixing the method with an object. For example, we invoke the instance method

deposit

fredsAccount, deposit (i00) ;

The deposit method modifies the instance variables corresponding to the fredsAccount object

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