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keithasaurus | 5 months ago

could java please also learn that stand-alone functions are cleaner than static methods? even if it's just syntax sugar...

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fhd2|5 months ago

C++ calls them free functions, and I always found them rather elegant. A common pattern, at least a few years ago, was to use free functions for anything that'd be a method in Java, but doesn't actually require access to anything non-public.