can someone explain me this?

[Ankur kothari]

  class Parent {
	int x=10;
   
}

class Child extends Parent {
	static int x=1;
   void show() {
        System.out.println(x);
    }
}

public class Test12 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Parent parent = new Child();
        Child child = new Child();
        child.show();
	}
}  

by providing static int x=1 what are we doing here? why is this even allowed when we aren't allowed this if x was a method..i mean int x(){} and static int x(){}



does this compile because

[Abhay Agarwal]

instance variable i gets shadowed by static variable i.

for methods, we can
a. overload them
b. override them
c. inherit them
but can not hide them

Underlying concept of this question is - Instance variable can be shadowed (Shadowing concept)

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

please, clearly ask your question?

[Salil Vverma]

Hi Seetharaman/Abhay ,

As we can see that the above program is running fine without any issues. The question that Ankur asked is "why is this even allowed when we aren't allowed this if x was a method". The question is any thoughts why sun restricted the implementation of static method with the same name in child class but did not restrict the existance of same reference name with static qualifier?

Do you find any logical explanation of it?

Regards
Salil Verma

[Salil Vverma]

Hi Abhay,

Could you please share some link explaining the purpose and benefits of shadowing concept.

Regards
Salil Verma