Re: class reference from static context

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From: Torsten Welches
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:32

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"Rick Ingham" <rdingham@home.com> wrote:
>But will that work in subclasses that inherit the method and 
>properly reflect the subclass' class name?

There is no polymorphism magic involved with static methods. 
They are always called on the declaration type rather than the 
runtime type (unlike instance methods). That means you had to 
"override" the method in each subclass anyway.
Or do I just miss what you are asking?

Torsten

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