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My eclipse compiles fine with that, you should be getting a compiler warning though.

You can call statics using "this" as well if you like, during runtime the JVM will just reference the class...

Here is a scary bit of code for you though.

Try running this.



public class MyClass {

public static void myMethod() {
System.out.println("No null pointer exception?");

Indeed, you have a null reference, when you attempt to call a method on a null reference you will be thrown a NullPointerException.



String myString = null;
myString.length();


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