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Mastering SAP ABAP
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Mastering SAP ABAP

by Paweł Grześkowiak, Philipp Deth, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
548 pages
12h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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The static method versus the instance method

When we want to create our software in ABAP OOP technology, we need to know the differences between static and instance methods as well. The same is applicable for attributes.

Why are these differences so important? Imagine we have a car and we want to accelerate by 10 km/h. In this case, we would need to press the gas pedal for the car to accelerate. In Objects, we can describe this as using the Accelerate method, which changes the SPEED instance attribute in the instance of the CAR class.  This example shows us that an action should not be made without reference to something.

When we speak about static attributes, these can be changed without reference to any object. Also, a static method can ...

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