On May 8, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Joanna Carter wrote:
> Hi Ken
>
>> And while we're correcting things, there's no such thing as a "static
>> method" in Objective-C. There are class methods. The use of "static" in
>> this way is a C++-ism.
>
> Aaarrgghhhhh!!!
>
> My problem is that I used Delphi ever since v1, which call them class
> methods, but for the past five years, I have also been using C#, which call
> them static methods.
C# called them 'static methods' because Java called them 'static methods', and
C# is a knockoff of Java.
I was actually working in the Java group some time before they threw it all
over the wall, and I (along with
other Objective-C and NextStep-heads in the group) argued long and hard for the
terminology 'class method'
and 'instance method', on the basis that calling a class method a 'static
method' simply because it used the 'static'
keyword as means to indicate a class method was somehow wrong thinking.
The forces of darkness won, and that's how Java now has rebarbative terminology
such as 'non-static method' to
mean 'instance method'. Observe carefully, Grasshopper: if you do not see
the word ''static' before a method, then
you know that it is a 'non-static method'. Yuck.
I'm not trained in linguistics, so I've been unable to formulate a query as to
what philosophical issue is being bent
out of shape by confusing the function of something with the label attached to
the function. Any linguists/philosophers
on board here to address the issue?
Cheers,
. . . . . . . . Henry
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