17 Feb
2005
17 Feb
'05
9:24 p.m.
keyword suggestions: permanment persistant sticky omnipresent external
regarding the meaning of static i just read in kernighan and ritchie that static in c actually has two meanings, one of which seems to be very similar to static in pike: a function or variable declared static is only visible in the file it is declared in.
only inside a function static takes the meaning of permanent storage within a single function.
this suggests that pikes use of static is actually not as strange as once thought considering its roots in c. (another mystery unraveled, making a note of this in the pike book)
greetings, martin.