Re: [Vala] VAPI Question - Static Methods

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

There wouldn't have been any difference semantically if min and max were
instance methods. However both for historical reason and probably because
the final code is more clear, we kept them static methods.
For what concerns to_string(), it's because that's the convention among all
classes, not only int. It would have been very inconvenient to have it
static.


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>wrote:

> How do you determine whether or not a method should be static when writing
> vapis? Even if you just look at simple examples, like a max and min
> functions for a type (eg. short, long, int) versus the clamp function or
> the to_string function. The first two are static and second two are not.
> What's the difference?
>
> Steven N. Oliver
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