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andyb
06/06/2017, 2:26 PM@onionsoup probably because static methods are a bit of a code smell in an OO language. They are much better represented by top-level functions in FP and the companion object is merely a way of grouping these functions.
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onionsoup
06/06/2017, 2:31 PMandyb: well but the result is the same. you have a bunch of methods inside a class and you call them using the class name. if the static methods were a code smell then why aren't the companion object's methods a code smell?
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nulldev
06/06/2017, 2:39 PMBecause companion objects are real objects.
Static methods do not belong to any object. Companion objects are singleton objects attached to a class.
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andyb
06/06/2017, 2:42 PMIt also provides a cleaner separation from the instance properties on the class.