Timeline for Are we abusing static methods?
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| Feb 10, 2018 at 23:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/962473127086379013 | ||
| Feb 9, 2018 at 22:13 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 248 characters in body |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 16:23 | vote | accept | user3748908 | ||
| Mar 8, 2016 at 10:00 | history | edited | user3748908 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I really don't think this is a duplicate of that other question |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 10:00 | review | Close votes | |||
| Mar 13, 2016 at 3:04 | |||||
| Mar 7, 2016 at 22:35 | answer | added | Winston Ewert | timeline score: 27 | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 20:37 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | The static method that you are illustrating above is just an ordinary factory method. Making factory methods static is the generally-accepted convention, for a number of compelling reasons. Whether the factory method is appropriate here is a different matter. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 20:37 | comment | added | gnat | possible duplicate of Make methods that do not depend on instance fields, static? | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 20:36 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Strongly related: Is static universally “evil” for unit testing and if so why does resharper recommend it? | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 20:35 | history | edited | gnat | edited tags | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 20:33 | history | asked | user3748908 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |