Static methods and their overriding

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No, you’re not overriding anything – you’re just hiding the original method.

It’s unfortunate that Java allows you to call a static method via a reference. Your call it more simply written as:

next.show();

Importantly, this code would still call the original version in stat13:

public static void showStat(stat13 x)
{
    x.show();
}
...
showStat(new next());

In other words, the binding to the right method is done at compile-time, and has nothing to do with the value of x – which it would normally with overriding.

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