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Person application

1. Write the Person class (see assignment on course web page).
2. Complete the Main class.
3. Run it.
4. Change the Person's name attribute to be "static". Run Main class again.
5. Answer this question.

If we declare a Person's name to be static, then when we create several Person objects they have the wrong name. Why?

Answer:

Example code with static attribute

public class Person {
    private static String name;
    private String email = "";
    
    /** constructor initializes a new Person */
    public Person( String aname ) {
        this.name = aname;
    }
    public String toString() {
        if (email.isEmpty()) return name;
        return String.format("%s <%s>", name, email);
    }