What's the meaning of System.out.println in Java?

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prosseek picture prosseek · Aug 4, 2010 · Viewed 210.3k times · Source

Is this static println function in out class from System namespace?

namespace System {
  class out {
    static println ...
  }

How can I interpret this name? And where in JRE this function is defined? In java.lang.System/java.lang.Object?

Answer

kennytm picture kennytm · Aug 4, 2010

No. Actually out is a static member in the System class (not as in .NET), being an instance of PrintStream. And println is a normal (overloaded) method of the PrintStream class.

See http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#out.

Actually, if out/err/in were classes, they would be named with capital character (Out/Err/In) due to the naming convention (ignoring grammar).

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