Static function leading to more static functions

Question

I have a class that has a few functions that are useful on their own, which are static. Now these functions depend on other functions that are not useful on their own (but don't interact with class member variables) but are also static, so they are private. Now I have a class with many non-static functions, and couple of static public functions and a few static private functions.

Is this good practice? (should I be making this a community wiki?)

Answer 1

I think you should declare those functions as free functions. If they do not need the members it should be not a big deal.
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