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Section D.2 [depr.static] of the standard says, "The use of the static
keyword is deprecated when declaring objects in namespace scope."

Section 1.8 [depr.object] of the standard says that a function is not an
object.

I believe that the intent was to deprecate using the static keyword to
declare functions in namespace scope as well, but the wording of the
standard does not do that.

    -- Darin


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