Just listening to Helms and Peters Out Loud podcast on the CF 8 wishlist -
probably old news for everyone, but made me think.  There was a lot of stuff
about ColdFusion isn't Java, we don't need interfaces etc., with which I
totally agree.

The thing that made me think was this statement - "Smalltalk doesn't have
static methods, neither does Ruby".  The implication being that static
methods are just another Java thing that doesn't apply to dynamic languages.

Am I missing some crucial distinction between static methods and class
methods?  I don't know Java well enough to be sure, but the Ruby docs
actually state that they are equivalent. I don't know Ruby, but can anyone
imagine Smalltalk without class methods and variables?

Jaime Metcher




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