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.
