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What is Method Hiding in Java? How would you implement it?
Tests whether you know static methods aren't polymorphic -- redeclaring a static method with the same signature in a subclass hides the parent's version rather than overriding it, so which one runs is resolved by the reference's compile-time type, not the object's runtime type.
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