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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

To be needlessly pedantic on this joke, answer07 in itself is not an object, but a class, a blueprint for objects. An instance of that class would be an object. Calling the static function main does also not create an instance of the class in the class loader.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

To expand on that you can never instantiate an object of type answer07 since it's a static class.

(For the students here the "static" modifier means "it's on the class, not the object". Non-static will only be accessible as a "obj.whatever" but static is accessible by "Class.whatever")

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Is the class declared static? I assume the "...ic class Answer07" at the top stands for "public class Answer07".

I don't think java supports top level static classes (it does have nested static classes, though).