Question

Its a well known fact that a static method can work only on static members.

public static void Main()
{
    Test t1 = new Test();
}

Here the Main method is static, but I haven’t declared t1 as static. Is it implicitly static?

Answer 1

No, it’s a local variable. Local variables behave the same way whether they’re declared in static methods or instance methods.

As a very rough guide (captured variables etc introduce complications):

• Instance variables: one variable per instance
• Static variables: one variable for the type itself
• Local variables (including parameters): one separate variable for each method call