Unification of Methods and Functions

[Greg Ewing]

David MacQuigg wrote:
> The need for static methods
> will arise when the student first writes a method that needs to work
> without a current instance.

But why would he need such a method, as opposed to
a plain function?

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg