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From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: static member initialization (lippman's book)
Summary: declaration of static member is not a definition
Message-ID: <108@dumbcat.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 01:41:45 GMT
References: <292@mez.e-technik.uni-bochum.de>
Reply-To: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
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In article <292@mez.e-technik.uni-bochum.de> frei@mez.e-technik.uni-bochum.de (Matthias Frei) writes:
    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 ?

As ark has responded it's not an error.  The thing to remember is that ``The
declaration of a static member in its class declaration is *not* a
definition.''  That quote is from the AT&T C++ Release 2.0 Product Reference
Manual.

--marc
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