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Posted by Naimah Raheem
Naimah Raheem
2,394 Points

How can you call a class in a class without it being static ie. You can say "Game.Board board = new Game.Board"

You can't say System.Console.WriteLine(Game.length); Why are classes treated differently than variables.

Naimah Raheem
Naimah Raheem
2,394 Points

also how come static void Main() { Game.Main(); } doesn't make an infinite loop just curious.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,110 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,110 Points

You could write "System.Console.WriteLine(Game.length);" if you have given the class "Game" a static property with the name "length".

Classes are more like types than variables. But variables can hold references to class instances.

And the reason "static void Main() { Game.Main(); }" doesn't make an "infinite loop" is because it eventually crashes after exhausting system resources. Every function or method call uses a bit of memory that is not released until it returns (which this one never does).