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RE: (no subject)

I think that the post had to deal with using static as a means of keeping
the variable active so you could return a pointer to it.

I don't believe the post had to do with static itself being bad.

Regards,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Daly [mailto:tdaly_2002@yahoo.com]

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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