Why are static imports of static methods with same names legal?
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Lets say we have these packages and classes:
package p1;
public class A1 {
public static void a() {}
}
package p2;
public class A1 {
public static void a() {}
}
package p3;
import static p1.A1.a;
import static p2.A1.a;
public class A1 {
public static void test() {
}
}
I am wondering, why the static import of methods is legal (won't result in compile time error) in package p3
? We won't be able to use them further in the test()
method as such usage will result in the compile time error.
Why it is not the same as with a normal import of classes. Lets say we would like to import classes A1
from packages p1
and p2
into p3
:
package p3;
import p1.A1;
import p2.A1;
such import is illegal and will result in the compile time error.
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