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From: sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Simple C++ Question
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Date: 26 Jul 90 13:49:58 GMT
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In article <155@srchtec.UUCP> johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin) writes:
>
>   static class  Widget  {
>       .
>       .   // data and member functions here
>       .
>   };
>
>We have checked Lippman's book, the Stroustrup text, and Hansen's "answer
>book" to no avail.  Please forgive me asking this on the net, but what does
>it do??

From the E&S ARM (that should make everybody happy), p. 98:

    The static and extern specifiers can be applied only to names of
    objects and functions.  In particular,

          static class X {     // error
            int a;
            // ...
          };

    is illegal.

Interestingly, both cfront and g++ accept this kind of thing without
complaining.  Which brings us back to the original question, actually:
given that it's illegal but accepted, what does it do?

Scott