[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: Should PRIVATE STATIC be preferred over PRIVATE when...

[Lieven De Foor]

When a private method in a class has no dependencies on any instance members, you can declare it private static. In some languages this could (theoretically) improve performance ( Performance of using static methods vs instantiating the class containing the methods ). Is this the case as well in ABL or is replacing private by private static (when possible) of no use?

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