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Note the contrast between the definition of a rating instance
method and that of a rating class method:
*-- No static keyword in instance method
| *-- Instance method needs
| | no instance argument
v v
public int rating ( ) {
return script + acting + direction;
} ^ ^ ^
*-------*--------*-- Instance method assumes that instance
variables are those of the target instance
*-- The static keyword appears in class method
| *-- Class method needs
| | instance argument
v v
------ -------
public static int rating (Movie m) {
return m.script + m.acting + m.direction;
} ^ ^ ^
*----------*----------*-- Class method needs to reference
instance variables using the
field-selection operator