posted 19 years ago
If you look at the
JavaDoc for System you'll see a public variable called out with a type of PrintStream. If you follow the link to PrintStream you'll see all the things it can do. So when you say System.out.println() you're calling the println() method on the PrintStream that is provided for your pleasure by the System class.

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