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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Is this a bug?
Message-ID: <641@taumet.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 16:56:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.181029.28684@arcturus.uucp>
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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berryc@arcturus.uucp (Craig D. Berry (x1710)) writes:

|I have a class with a static member function:
|  class foo { public: static foo barfunc(); }
|Now, somewhere else, I try to use barfunc to initialize a foo:
|  foo quux = foo::barfunc();
|This doesn't work...
|Am I missing something, or is my compiler (Turbo C++ 1.0) broken?

This is a compiler bug.  I have the latest release, and the example works.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com