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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
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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
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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
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Mar 7, 2016 at 20:33 history asked user3748908 CC BY-SA 3.0