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From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: Scope of static member initializers
Summary: plea for precision
Message-ID: <11116@alice.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 90 12:42:49 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.030632.2273@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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The initializer for a static member IS in the scope of the class
of the object being initialized. See section 8.4 of the manual
(page 150 of the ARM).

A general plea: I realize that many of you haven't yet managed to
get your hands on a copy of the AT&T 2.1 reference manual or
Ellis&Stroustrup: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley
(commonly referred to as the ARM), but please try to remember that
this is comp.STD.c++ and try to support arguments/requests with
references to the most recent draft working document (currently
that reference manual - AT&T 2.1 and the reference manual proper
in the ARM are identical).

The point is that this would minimize confusion, especially confusion
arising from people referring to different documents as ``the manual''
and different implementations as ``the compiler.''