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[–] vala@lemmy.world 127 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Calls a static method on the OldMan class instead of the instance of oldMan that is actually dying.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Tonight's story: Every man older than OldMan.getMinimumAge() has been in perfect *unchanging* health for the last few months‽ To find out why, stay tuned! Our experts chime in to help you understand....

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If only I'd been born %YEARS% later :'-(

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago

But then they really have no idea and try to convince you it’s from some stupid diet trick fed to them by a sponsor.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's an instance property

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this some .NET convention that references to instances start with capital letters?

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, properties (like a field but with a getter and/or setter method, may or may not be backed by a field) are PascalCase

[–] robotica@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is OldMan a property here? It's clearly the name of a class

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Instance properties are PascalCase.

[–] robotica@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes I know, I've coded in .NET before, but so are class names.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Okay, but this makes more sense as an instance method rather than a static one