• fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    But answer07 is an object… Not sure what your teacher/ta disliked 😆

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      7 days ago

      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.

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        7 days ago

        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”)

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          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).

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      7 days ago

      I presume WeatherData.getData() should be going into some Data class that has multiple properties (using the , as a delimiter) instead of what OP is doing and just using the String

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        I mean, unless it’s explicitly specified, one can still argue. For fun, that is. I did it a few times with stuff like using maps when the task said I couldn’t use loops. Didn’t really get into trouble since there was a proper solution ready as well.