Yeah, that's certainly right. For me it gave me pause, because a
"Driver" class seems like the canonical functional, utility, non-OO
class, consisting mostly of a main() method and support methods.

I don't know if I convinced whoever changed that... I somehow suspect
that within 12 months I'll forget this conversation and "fix" it again
when IntelliJ highlights it.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> For me, it pretty much comes down to intent.  If the method really feels
> like it is applied to the object, then it should be non-static.
>
> If it is a pure function and is obviously such, then it should be static.

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