milor001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (R A Milowski) writes:

>static class Something {
>// blah blah blah
>// interface code there...
>};
[...]
>What is the "static" on the class definition suppose to mean?

I guess the programmer intended it mean "this class is only used in
this file".  However, it doesn't have any semantic effect - its only
potential use is as documentation.

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I ran into the following code (and problem) when I tried to compile
Fresco:

static class Something {
// blah blah blah
// interface code there...
};

static Something something;

Since the class definition was in the code (.cxx file) and not in the header,
I am assuming that the intension was for a locally scoped class definition.
Its use--as a static object instance--also sugests this.

What is the "static" on the class definition suppose to mean?  Is this something
new?  I was paging through Stroustrup's book but couldn't find it.

Comments?


R. Alexander Milowski