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From: jps@cs.brown.edu (John Shewchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Can you initialize private static data members?
Keywords: initialization
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Date: 26 Jul 89 20:30:41 GMT
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Given:



  class X {
    ...
  public:
    X(char *);  // The only constructor
  }

and

  class Y {
  private:
    static X x;
  public:
    ...
  }


Is there any way to initialize Y::x?  The references seem to
indicate that Y::x can not be initialized by saying

  X Y::x("Test");  

because Y::x is private.  Is this correct?

Thanks.

John Shewchuk                                                jps@cs.brown.edu