Static Member Classes

First, we have static member classes (and static member interfaces).

Such a class (or interface) is a static member of an enclosing top-level class or interface.

Note that nested interfaces are always implicitly static members of their enclosing class.

A static member class behaves much like an ordinary top-level class, except:

It is enclosed within the namespace of the enclosing class, so references to it must be qualified
It can access the static members of the enclosing class

Let's look at some examples...

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