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From: frei@mez.e-technik.uni-bochum.de (Matthias Frei)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: static member initialization (lippman's book)
Message-ID: <292@mez.e-technik.uni-bochum.de>
Date: 19 Sep 89 15:18:49 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, W-Germany
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I've a question to the scope of static members in Rel. 2.0.
On page 441 lippman provides an example on static member initialization:

class Y {
	... stuff deleted
private:
	static int val;
	};

int Y::val = 1; 

Is the statement Y::val = 1 a bug in the book, or are the scope rules
from Rel 1.2 invalid ? I think val is private to Y and is seen inside
the class only.

If that statement is legal, I hope it only may occur once near by
the class definition. Or can I assign in this way everywhere ?

Could somebody please clarify that point ? clarify that point ?

	Matthias

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