I wondered if the Ceylon programming language features an equivalent to the "static" keyword in Java, or if there's some common idiom that's used in its place.
Edit: elaborating on the answer, here's an example of a scoped "function" (its syntax is identical to a method) that can be invoked without a class instance, in other words it's just like a static Java method. Notice the key difference is that this is defined inside an "object" instead of a "class", which effectively makes a singleton with no need to instantiate:
object mystaticstuff {
shared void introduceYourself() {
print "madam, im adam";
}
}
Note you could also declare the method/function outside of any class or object, in which case it just floats freely in your "global" (still scoped to your package) namespace.
There are no static members in Ceylon. Rather there are toplevel functions, declared in the package.
More about it here : Ceylon Docs