On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 04:32:25 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
Aha! But I don't! It feels intuitive, possibly the best use of "static". But that is immaterial, what matters is the sum of all meanings of "static" in this language. The "single instance per class" meaning of "static" is just bonkers. I've had that meaning burned into my brain for a couple of decades, from C++. But I don't have to like it! I could stomach it, though, if that was the only use of the keyword. (Or if the other meanings couldn't be used in the same contexts).
The name is fine. It comes from 'statically bound/dispatched', that is 'resolved at compile time'.
