Hi,
i've had a look with flasm, it explicitly calls A.dothis() in A.doit.
writing this.dothis() isn't possible because it's a static function --
there is no object "this" could refer to.
there is, as far as i know, nothing you can do about it except to work
around it by either cutting'n'pasting doit from A, or using a
singleton instead.
instinctively, i would agree with you and expect B.dothis to get
called when i call B.doit, though
Nope, when you call the static method, it will not change when
subclassed. That is exactly as I would expect.
This is due to the fact, that static methods aren't inherited - they do
not exist on instances. They only exist on the class itself. When you
call a static method or refence a static variable, that path to the
variable or method will be "hardcoded" in front of the name of the
member and thus not change when subclassed.
I would also expect this behaviour. Consider static methods as though
they existed in a totally different class. If class A refenced a method
of class C, then just because A was subclassed into B, B still refers to
class C - what else should it do?
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