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Re: No late binding for static methods

843789May 20 2009 — edited May 20 2009
Only the sale class has a showAdvertisement() method.

When the compiler compiles that class it decides at compile time which exact method is called for each static method call (that's the big difference to non-static method calls: the exact method to be called is only decided at runtime in those cases).

There's only one method showAdvertisement() and that is called in both cases in your code. Since that single method always calls the same static announcement() method, you will see the result you posted.

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