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From: jss@hector..UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
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Subject: Re: static member data initialization query
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 17:55:57 EDT
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In article <2755@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> jon@oddhack.Caltech.EDU (Jon Leech) writes:
>
>Note that
>8.5.1 in the book says ``No initializer can be specified for a static
>member, and it cannot be of a class with a constructor.'' 
>

This has frequently been misread as meaning that there cannot be
constructor in the class containing the static.  What it really says
(at least what Bjarne intended it to say) is that the static member
cannot have a type that has a constructor.

For example

	class S { static int x ; S() ; } ;

is ok, but (given the above) 
	
	class T { static S s ; }   ;

is not.  

Jerry Schwarz