[Newbies] Design best practice : put state-independent methods on class side?

[David Mitchell]

I'm guessing you like that the class methods can be invoked easily
from the class name. What you want is a well known object.

I try to do all my work on the instance side. That's where most of the
objects are.

I wouldn't use a class object just to create a well known object. I'd
probably start with a Singleton and work from there.

You can see drawbacks and alternatives to Singleton at c2.com:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingletonPattern



On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM, itsme213 <itsme213 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have some methods that currently refer to iVars, called from other methods
>  of the same class. I need similar functionality in other classes, not
>  related by inheritance, and want to keep it DRY.
>
>  If I move the iVar references into explicit method args they can be easily
>  re-located and shared.
>
>  Is it then good or bad practice to take a such collection of related
>  state-independent methods (they don't depend on any iVar) and put them on
>  the class-side of some suitable class?
>
>  My options and concerns:
>  - I could move them up the hierarchy on the instance side but sometimes hit
>  single inheritance limits
>  - I could use traits for these but am unclear about the future of traits in
>  Squeak
>  - I can put on the class side and call easily from instance-side methods,
>  but is this OK practice?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Sophie
>
>
>
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