- A static member can be accessed before any objects of its class are created.
- You can call a static member without referencing to any object.
- You can declare both static methods and static variables.
- Variables declared as static are, essentially, global variables.
- All instances of the class share the same static variable.
- A static variable is initialized when its class is loaded.
- A static variable always has a value.
- If not initialized, a static variable is initialized to zero for numeric values.
- If not initialized, a static variable is initialized to null for object references.
- If not initialized, a static variable is initialized to false for variables of type bool.
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