On 4/29/05, David Holroyd <ruby-talk / badgers-in-foil.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:26:38PM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> What he's saying is what I said, in part. In PDF::Writer,
>> recently, I did the following:
>>
>>   class SimpleTable
>>     class Column
>>       ...
>>     end
>>     ...
>>   end
>>
>> To do this in Java -- especially since Column is accessible as
>> SimpleTable::Column (it's a full blown class, not just a nested
>> class, if that's even possible in Java -- it's been a long time)
> FYI, the Java version of this construct would look something like,
> 
>   public class SimpleTable {
>       public static class Column {
>           ...
>       }
>       ...
>   }

Is that the same? You've got:

  public class SimpleTable
  public static class Column

What effect does the "static" have on SimpleTable::Column in Java?

-austin
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