Scala Learning Series
Why Scala doesn’t have “static”?
Scala Programming
Dec 9, 2018
This is the design decision made by the Scala team. The main reason for this decision is to make Scala a pure object-oriented language, as static doesn’t belong to an object.
The “static” keyword means that we can access those class members without creating an object or using an object. This is completely against OOP principles. If a language supports the “static” keyword, then that language is not a pure object-oriented language.
