Why is String.Format static? [closed]

Answer 1

The first thing I did when I got to upgrade to VS2008 and C#3, was to do this

public static string F( this string format, params object[] args )
{
    return String.Format(format, args);
}

So I can now change my code from

String.Format("Hello {0}", Name);

to

"Hello {0}".F(Name);

which I preferred at the time. Nowadays (2014) I don't bother because it's just another hassle to keep re-adding that to each random project I create, or link in some bag-of-utils library.

As for why the .NET designers chose it? Who knows. It seems entirely subjective. My money is on either

• Copying Java
• The guy writing it at the time subjectively liked it more.

There aren't really any other valid reasons that I can find