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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.



 |  Someone else mentioned that using static is a sign
of poor
 |  design.  I
 |  agree with this.  While you certainly *can* use
static you almost
 |  certainly shouldn't.  Using static in this
situation is
 |  more of a band-aid
 |  than a real fix.



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