Difference between Private mand Private Static

> Within a class, what's the difference between a prviate method and a

> private static method?

The first is not static, the second is.

> If it was public or protected, we could still access a static method

I'm not sure what this means. A method - private/public/protected - can

always be accessed, just from different places.

> but why would we declare a prviate static method when the method

> can not be called by other classes?

It would be suitable for a static method that was only going to be

accessed from within the class. Note that such a method can be called

from within a "static context" (like main()) while a non static private

method can't be.

Also a method could be considered static on semantic grounds - if it

only does static (class wide) things.

pbrockway2a at 2007-7-11 15:08:52 >