Static methods are a necessary evil in OO languages and should be avoided when possible.
I disagree. Static functions are similar to Aspect Oriented Programming, such as AspectJ which centrializes
code across many classes that is similar in functionality. This eliminates duplicate code, and increases maintainability.
I see no correlation between AOP and static methods, nor any correlation between static methods an increased code maintainability. There is nothing magic about static methods that make them more maintainable than non-statics.
David
http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/
-Rob
The discussion is growing somewhat repetative, OT and monotonic, unless anyone has a clearly differing view than whats been already voiced, I suggest we move on to more interesting development related topics, your probibly welcome to continue this discussion on the jakarta commons users/interest list.
Cheers,
-- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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