Should Java methods be static by default?

Question

Say you\'re writing method foo() in class A. foo doesn\'t ever access any of A\'s state. You know nothing else about what foo does, or how it behaves. It cou

Answer 1

No, the use of statics should be quite niche.

In this case the OP is likely 'hiding' state in the parameters passed into the static method. The way the question is posed makes this non-obvious (foo() has no inputs or outputs), but I think in real world examples the things that should actually be part of the object's state would fall out quite quickly.

At the end of the day every call to obj.method(param) resolves to method(obj, param), but this goes on at a way lower level than we should be designing at.