Should Helper/Utility Classes be abstract?

Question

I commonly find myself extracting common behavior out of classes into helper/utility classes that contain nothing but a set of static methods. I\'ve often wondered if I sho

Answer 1

By declaring them as abstract, you are in effect indicating to other coders that you intended for these classes to be derived from. Really, you're right, that there's not much difference, but the semantics here are really more about the interpretation of other people who look at your code.