why can't a static member be reached through an instance name?

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Published on 2010-03-19T12:13:35Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 12:21 UTC
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say I have:

 class Test
 {
      public static int Hello = 5;
 }

This obviously works:

 int j = Test.Hello;

But why should this not work?

 Test test = new Test();
 int j = test.Hello;

The instance could not have a member equally named, so I don't see how this could be ambiguous or unresolvable for a compiler.

Anyone any idea why this is?

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