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In this video you're going to learn static methods in E6.

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So inside your class you can add a static method which will be attached to the class itself and not

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to the instances of the class.

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So to create a static method

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you just use the static keyword followed by the name of your method.

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So let's call it default.

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For example let's say that this method will just return a default instance of our class.

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So let's give it a few

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arguments.

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Apple and iPhone 6.

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All right.

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So this is a static method.

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Now if you

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look for this method inside an instance of the class.

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So for example my phone 6

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then you get undefined because the static method is not attached to the instance of the class.

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All right.

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If you try

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phone six dots the static method then you get the function expression all right.

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And if you call this it works and you get the defaults then.

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All right.

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So that's how static methods work in E6.

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Now you can think about some built in methods in JavaScript which behave in a similar way to static

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methods.

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They're probably not defined the same way as E6 static methods but you can think for example about the

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objects those creates method which is attached to the object cos

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all right because if you want to use the Create method you have to use it with the object class or the

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objects objects.

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Now if you create an objects

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like this

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then you try to access the create method inside this objects.

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While this instance then it's not going to work.

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It gets undefined so static methods is a really interesting concept in iOS 6 which you would find in

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many other programming languages and it was missing in iOS 5.