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Hurry And here's your shmoop duties you're brought to you

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by llamas that sound oddly like taylor swift a lot

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Well you'd like to write a llama class to help

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with keeping track of llamas on your farm This class

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will include the following data members here Which of the

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following should be declared as static ten come on And

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here the potential answers numerals I came to enact a

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llama All right here we go I'm nominating All right

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We'll recall what the k word static means when you

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declare something to be static You're telling the computer that

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every instance of the object will hold the same value

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for the variable that is static saying it doesn't change

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like idiots in congress for example let's pretend our lama

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class has another variable called for color Well now let's

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say we create three instances of our lama class peanut

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carl and dahlia if we made for color static and

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then set it to grey while every lama created would

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turn gray But if for color wasn't static then we

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could change each llamas colored individual in a nutshell Static

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variables are used to signify variables that should be the

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same Across all instances of a class and non static

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variables used for ones that should be unique among different

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instances got it now let's Look at our answers We're

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looking at three way want lama named to be static

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Well that's like asking do we want everyone that i

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have the same name Unless you want fifty llamas running

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at you when you call carl probably should keep along

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the name non static Now if we look at the

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second answer the same problem occurs We can't make lama

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idee static because that would make every lama be indistinguishable

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by ideas like having same social security number for every

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llama by process of elimination That leaves us with one

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option left that's number one but let's double check that

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it's right we want next available I'd be the same

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across all instances of lama Well yeah this variable isn't

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specific to just one lama in particular rather than lama

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class a hole so should make it static Next time

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i'll pack a bag so we can explore more about 00:02:20.68 --> [endTime] lama

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