What is the purpose of static member functions in a class?
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Jump to PostStatic functions are generally used when you have static data members in a class and you want to be able to acess the static data. You have to have a satic function to acess static data since it is seperate from the objects of that class.
Jump to PostWhen you have a member variable which value you want to share among all instances of a class, you declare it as static. In order to access that member with a method, the method also has to be declared static.
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Jump to PostWhat is the purpose of static member functions in a class?
Well, others have already pointed out one kind of purpose for static member functions. But there are many others too. In other words, there are many "tricks" that rely on a static member function(s). So, it's pretty …
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Any other use it has......? +0
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