Re: primitive as part of an object or not ?

From: Chris Smith (cdsmith_at_twu.net)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:03:34 -0700

Roedy Green wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:40:42 +0100, Michiel de Roo
> <michiel@mderooPUNTNL> wrote or quoted :
>
> >In Java, is it possible to have a primitive variable, that is not part of
> >any object ?
>
> of course, unless you consider the class object an object.

Even if you did, you couldn't reasonably call static or local variables
members of the class object. In fact, even local variables of instance
methods can't really be said to belong to the instance, so they aren't
part of an object either, as you imply later in your post. 

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