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6
Methods: A Deeper Look
Form ever follows function.
—Louis Henri Sullivan
E pluribus unum.
(One composed of many.)
—Virgil
O! call back yesterday, bid time
return.
—William Shakespeare
Answer me in one word.
—William Shakespeare
There is a point at which
methods devour themselves.
—Frantz Fanon
Objectives
In this chapter you'll learn:
How static methods and
fields are associated with
classes rather than objects.
How the method-call/return
mechanism is supported by
the method-call stack.
About argument promotion
and casting.
How packages group related
classes.
How to use secure random-
number generation to
implement game-playing
applications.
How the visibility of
declarations is limited to
specific regions of programs.
What method overloading is
and how to create overloaded
methods.
 
 
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