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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Simple C++ Question
Message-ID: <353@taumet.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 16:57:15 GMT
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johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin) writes:

>static class  Widget {
>  static int   several_data_items;    // all static
>  static void  several_memb_funcs();  // once again, all static
>  } widg_inst;

The static refers to widg_inst, exactly as in ordinary C.  There is no
such thing as a static class, only static objects.  You could also
write this as

class Widget {
  ...
  };
static Widget widg_inst;

and it would mean exactly the same thing -- just like ordinary C.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com