Should private helper methods be static if they can be static
Let's say I have a class designed to be instantiated. I have several private "helper" methods inside the class that do not require access to any of the class members, and operate solely on their arguments, returning a result. public class Example { private Something member; public double compute() { double total = 0; total += computeOne(member); total += computeMore(member); return total; } private double computeOne(Something arg) { ... } private double computeMore(Something arg) {... } } Is there any particular reason to specify computeOne and computeMore as static methods - or any particular