Description Jon Skeet 2002-06-28 06:30:04 EDT

One of the really nasty (IMO, and in the opinion of others) "features" of the
Java languages is the ability to access static methods/fields through
references, where the type of the reference is used rather than anything else.
For instance:

    Foo b = new Bar();
    b.staticMethod(); 
calls Foo.staticMethod();
as does:
    Foo n = null;
    n.staticMethod();

This is generally a really bad idea. Is there any chance that we could have a
configurable compiler warning for it, as with things like unused parameters?

Jon