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Ans. Static methods can be called using instance references wherein this would have made sense but static method can also be called using Class name wherein this would mean nothing and hence forbidden.
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Ans. static keyword is used to specify that the respective programming construct ( method , variable ) belongs to the class and not to its instance and is supposed to be shared by all instances of the class.
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Ans. Keywords are the reserved words that have a pre defined meaning for a compiler whereas modifiers are the type of keywords that modifies the state or definition of a programming construct.
for, while are keywords but not modifiers.
private , public , final , abstract etc are keywords as well as modifiers.
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Ans. No. Even though "this" would mean a reference to current object id the method gets called using object reference but "this" would mean an ambiguity if the same static method gets called using Class name.
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Q22. In majority of the situations it won't make much sense whether you append this with the instance method call.Can you tell a situation wherein this keyword would make sense in a instance method ?
Ans. Within instance method of the parent class that has other multiple methods that have been overridden by the derived classes.
In such case a simple method call from the common method will always be made to the method definition in the parent class. But If we use this.methodCall , this will be polymorphic and will be made to the respective derived object overriding method.
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Q23. Which of the following is not the use of this keyword ?
a. Passing itself to another method b. To call the static method c. Referring to the instance variable when local variable has the same name d. Calling another constructor in constructor chaining
Ans. To call the static method
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Q24. Which of the following is not true for final variables ?
a. They cannot be changed after initialization b. They can be initialized within static method c. They can be declared and initialized together at the same place d. They can be initialized within constructor
Ans. They can be initialized within static method
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Ans. Abstract means that the class is only meant to be subclassed whereas final means that it cannot be subclassed so both concepts - abstract and final are actually mutually exclusive and hence not permitted together.
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Q28. Does compiler treats it differently if we don't prefix this to the member element and its implicit as its the only variable available with that name ?
Ans. It makes no difference whether we add this to the variable or not. The only use of this is in the cases where there are multiple variables with the same name and we want to distinguish between the member variable and local variable. In case this is not added ,this is automatically added by the compiler in the byte code.
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Ans. Keyword is a reserved word that has a pre defined meaning for the compiler and hence cannot be used as an identifier, for example - final, private , for etc.
Identifier is the name given by the programmer to a programming construct, for example - class and method names etc.
java Keywords cannot be used as an identifier in java.
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Ans. Goto statement results in unstructured jumps in control from one code location to another and hence makes the code very difficult
to read , maintain and debug. Moreover Goto can always be replaced using other statements like break / continue and hence results in structured movement of programming control.
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Ans. All Keywords , modifiers ( public , static , final etc ) as well as non modifier keywords ( for, if,switch etc ) are reserved words in java and hence cannot be used as identifiers. Along with keywords , there are few literals that have predefined meaning and hence cannot be used as identifiers, these are true , false and null.
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