Some Newbie Questions

[Stefan Meier]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:15 am, Larry Bates wrote:
> On question #1: I see this question a lot on
> this list, but I'm curious about why you don't
> want to instantiate the class?  I can't think
> of a reason not to and am very curious if I'm
> missing something here???
Static classes for example. If you want to maintain object orientation and 
have stuff to store statically, you might want to put it into a class and 
maybe even do some data mangling in a method or so, but since the class is 
static, no need to instantiate it.

- Stefan

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