Is there a good reason why C++ disallows statements at the global scope
level? You can use arbitrary expressions as initializers in the global
scope--you can even call void functions, as in:

    void init_func();
    int junk = (init_func(), 0);

So why not just allow any old statements, to be executed at
initialization time in order with all the other initialization in the
module?

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Ciao,
Paul D. DeRocco
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