When one wants to use such functions without instantiating an object first. But I guess one can use class methods (as per your definition) and *make sure* to consume the 1st param which will be the classname.

You mean because staticfunc will not be seen in a sub-class unless you do both: use base 'Class'; and use Class; ? I guess yes that's a problem.

Yes, except that they don't mess with the parameters to provide a classname.

Do you suggest that there is no use-case for staticfunc(), but instead convert it into a class method and consume the 1st param, in order to provide accessing it without instantiation first? OK, fine. But I think it is important to provide access to such methods which do not need the state and can be called without instantiating a dummy object first which will be of no use whatsoever. So I think what I posted is useful, but I can edit it to use class methods when this dialogue ends.

bw, bliako

> Do you suggest that there is no use-case for staticfunc(),

No I ask for use-cases justifying to deviate from Class->method() as default.

Anything goes in Perl, but I'd like to know why a pattern was applied.

I remember the Moo(se) folks using namespace::clean to wipe out any subs which are not part of the class, because otherwise they could be called as instance methods via the ISA chain.

A Class->method() OTOH is capable to handle that case by checking if the first parameter $_[0] was blessed.

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