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Re: Using STATIC

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.

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

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