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  3. May 2002

Re: Using STATIC

Got it.  That makes sense.

Thanks for the clarification.

Tom
>--- James Rich <james@eaerich.com> wrote:
> I am saying that returning a pointer to private
> storage is bad design and
> using static to fix that problem continues the bad
> design.  static has
> good uses.  Using it to keep your storage around so
> you can return a
> pointer to it is not one of them.
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>
>
>> On Fri, 31 May 2002, Tom Daly wrote:
> > Are you suggesting that using STATIC is, as a
> general
> > principle, poor design?
> >
> > Suppose the procedure has 'initialization' code
> that
> > should only be run once, perhaps to open files.
> I'd
> > want to keep that state in a STATIC variable.


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