Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I like to use static functions in C++ as a way to categorize them, like C# does.
Console::WriteLine('hello') Is this good or bad? If the functions are used often I guess it doesn’t matter, but if not do they put pressure on memory?
What about static const?
The first adjective that comes to mind is ‘unnecessary’. C++ has free functions and namespaces, so why would you need to make them static functions in a class?
The use of static methods in uninstantiable classes in C# and Java is a workaround because those languages don’t have free functions (that is, functions that reside directly in the namespace, rather than as part of a class). C++ doesn’t have that flaw. Just use a namespace.