Static member constructors are useful because they can have different names, and you can force an object to be on the heap by making all constructors private. The disadvantage is that if you want the object to work both heap allocated and non-heap allocated, you need two versions of the static function, and the nonheap version must copy the object.
This technique can be useful occasionally, but use it sparingly.
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