Products

Data Converter Cleaner TUC - Unit Converter Import Export Survey Manager Tweet Controller

Developer

Article Blog Forum Interview Beginner News Startup Quiz

Users

Career

Apply Job Internship

Pricing

Login Sign Up Get a Quote

Why can't static methods be abstract in Java

Anonymous User 2328 27 Jul 2015

The question is in Java why can't I define an abstract static method? for example

abstract class foo {
    abstract void bar( ); // <-- this is ok
    abstract static void bar2(); //<-- this isn't why?
}

Anonymous User

Other

I am a content writter !

1 Answers

Anonymous User 27 Jul 2015

Since "abstract" means: "Implements no functionality"

and, "static" means: "There is functionality even if you don't have an object instance".

And that's a logical contradiction.

advertising

Markdown for AI

A clean, structured version of this page for AI assistants and LLMs.