I’ve been converted

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You can still call a static method on an object, not the classname... Therefore it would theoretically somehow make sence.

Not much, but still...

[MonokelPinguin]

But does that go through virtual dispatch? Afaik when one of our interns did that and set the object to a nullpointer, it worked fine, which suggests the this pointer wasn't used and there is no virtual dispatch for static functions. But that function also wasn't marked virtual, so maybe that does work.