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Using static factory methods to prevent unwanted input
Many years ago, I posted a problem I had with some code and received a well written detailed answer that suggested the use of factory methods. I liked this approach, because I can provide a method ...
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Why would passing objects through static methods be advantageous?
Why would there be an advantage to use a static method and pass the reference to an object as a parameter rather than calling the method on an object?
To clarify what I mean, consider the following ...
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Are we abusing static methods?
A couple of months ago I started working in a new project, and when going through the code it stroke me the amount of static methods used. Not only utility methods as collectionToCsvString(Collection&...
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Does making a method static save memory on a class you'll have many instances of?
In response to Aaronaught's response to the question at:
Can't I just use all static methods?
Isn't less memory used for a static method? I am under the impression that each object instance carries ...
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Drawback of using static method [duplicate]
For methods that never access instance variable or static variable and they act just like a function (name-spaced) and they are deterministic base on only the input arguments , I want to ask, are ...
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Calling static method from instance of class
As a developer I am fan of static methods.
Recently I come across difference between OOP languages about this static methods.
All OOP language use static method to access any method without ...
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When to use a Singleton and when to use a static class [duplicate]
I've searched about this here and on StackOverflow and found some differences between the two.
But I'm still not sure in what cases one would prefer a Singleton, and in what cases one would choose to ...
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Static functions vs classes
Let's say that I want to build some utility functions to do some basic maths with the BigDecimals, for example I want to have a function that computes the average of a List<BigDecimal>.
What is ...
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