Questions tagged [static-methods]

OK, I've learned what a static function is, but I still don't see why they are more useful than private member functions. This might be kind of a newb-ish question here, but why not just replace all private member functions with static functions…

For example I have these two classes: First public class Example { public Example() { } public int ReturnSomething { return 1; } } Second public class Example { public Example() { } …

I had a recent code review that gave me some slightly surprising feedback. It was in an instantiable service class that had a number of fully encapsulated private methods. In other words, methods that didn't reference any higher level functions or…