Cleaner is in the eye of the beholder.

Personally I think that it makes a lot of sense to have a clear distinction between class methods and object methods. For instance it is obvious that a class called File should do things like open files and return the associated object. But it makes no sense to me to ask a file object to open other files. But that means that a file object should not inherit from File. In which case the natural implementation is to have a prototypical file which has no real file associated with it. Which "feels" wrong to me.

But different strokes for different folks. In the end either object model works.

In reply to Re^5: I dislike object-oriented programming in general by tilly
in thread I dislike object-oriented programming in general by vrk

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