[1610] in java-interest
question about static variables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff White)
Sun Sep 10 02:07:58 1995
From: Jeff White <jsw@cs.brown.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 22:10:38 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Reply-To: jsw@cs.brown.edu
Are public static variables inherited in subclasses? I would think
that since they're static and refer to the class itself - not
instances, that they would not be inherited. When I try to override a
pubic static final static variable I get no error in compiling my java
source.
The output of javah seems to indicate that they are indeed inherited
though. It does a #define for these variables, and includes the
parent class's static variables as well, which cause a c error because
then the same name is being #define'd twice...
So, either way, it seems that either javac should complain, or javah
shouldn't do the parental #defines.
thanks,
jeff
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