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    23 hours 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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      22 hours 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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        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).