Posted by Michael Fesser on 01/13/07 11:19

..oO(Sanders Kaufman)

>D'oh!
>I thought I had it - but then you said something about static stuff.

A static class method can be called without having to create an object
first.

>And I think I'm futzed up about Object v. Class here.

An object is an incarnation of a class, which itself is more or less
just a "blueprint" for creating objects.

>So let's see if I've got it better this way:
>
>I call my OBJECT methods with "->".
>I call my CLASS methods with "::".

Yep, that's one of its uses.

Micha

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