Re: inside static method - get name of class

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:07:10 -0800
Message-ID:
<fosn8e$vnd$1@ihnp4.ucsd.edu>
Roedy Green wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:22:32 -0800, Kevin McMurtrie
<mcmurtri@dslextreme.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

I think it would have been better if Java had some syntax equivalent to
the instance method getClass() that could be used in a static context.
Providing that would not require any bytecode or JVM changes because, as
you say, the class name is known at compile time.

Patricia

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I don't think Kevin's remark about Google spam was directed to me. He
seems to use it as part of his signature. As it happens, my article was
posted though the University of California at San Diego, but it would
have been neither a better nor a worse article if it had been posted
through Google.

Patricia

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