Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 73667 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2004 03:00:09 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 3 Oct 2004 03:00:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 97690 invoked by uid 500); 3 Oct 2004 03:00:05 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 97643 invoked by uid 500); 3 Oct 2004 03:00:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 97629 invoked by uid 99); 3 Oct 2004 03:00:05 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (hermes.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [128.186.38.55] (HELO bio.fsu.edu) (128.186.38.55) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:00:05 -0700 Received: from [146.201.34.104] (dial1254.acns.fsu.edu [146.201.34.104]) by bio.fsu.edu (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i9337NtI043282 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 23:07:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kim@kimvdlinde.com) Message-ID: <415F6B23.5010903@kimvdlinde.com> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 22:59:47 -0400 From: Kim van der Linde User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakarta Commons Users List Subject: [math] evaluate methods Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi All, I have a question. All evaluate methods are non-static, but they do not depend on information stored already in the class. That would suggest for me to make them static.... So, I guess that there is a compelling reason not to do that, but one that I do not know.... Can anyone enlighten me? Cheers, Kim -- http://www.kimvdlinde.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org