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wrong-about-everything

My point is that static classes should not be used in OOP.

That example with decorated Strings is an OOP alternative to procedural StringUtils class.

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Rasmus Schultz

It's okay to call functions though, like how your string example calls strtoupper and several others - but it's not okay to write/call your own functions?

I understand it's "not OOP", but "should not be used"?

I think there are well founded reasons why most languages support both paradigms - there are cases for functions and cases for classes, I think, and your string example is sufficiently complex and verbose as to leave me pretty firmly convinced of that.