I just wanted to clear up a question I have. What is the point of having a private static method as opposed to a normal method with private visibility?
I would have thought an advantage to having a static method is that it can be called without an instance of a class, but since it's private is there even a point to it being static?
The only reason I can think of is that it helps conceptually understand the method on the class level as opposed to object level.
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Answered on Oct 6, 2022
The characteristic of benign private static java is independent of the visibility.
The reasons that you will want to have a static method (some code that does not depend on non-static members) will still be useful. But maybe you don't want anyone/anything else to use it, just your class.
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