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class variable comparison table

Subject	declared in	mark as	have purpose	have type	be	have	access by	serve as	contain	is a subtopic of	declare by	refer to	share by	is a kind of	have scope	overuse
Java class variable	the body of the class (not inside a method)	static	storing: Default or 'constant' values that are widely used by methods in a class Lookup tables and similar structures used by algorithms inside a particular class		as private as possible	a value that is shared by all instances of a class	specifying the name of the class, followed by a dot, followed by the name of the variable	a global variable	different classes of objects depending on the type of the variable	The Basics of Java	giving the data type followed by the name of the variable	a particular object, several different objects during the execution of a program, or no object at all	all instances of the class	Java variable

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