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in reply to Remove bless reference or class/package name from method arguments

May I ask, if it isn't tied to the class, why is it a method in the first place?


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Re^2: Remove bless reference or class/package name from method arguments
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on May 21, 2009 at 09:36 UTC
    Static methods have a long history in OOP. Just because it operates at the level of the class without referencing any details of a specific instance doesn't mean it's not tied to the class.

      Alright then. I think I still wouldn't want to do this though, but merely out of maintainability issues. Foo::bar and Foo->bar are not the same, and I wouldn't expect them to be. After all, if you'd want to make a method that accepts an instance as first argument as the invocant, it wouldn't work anymore.


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