From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-07-23T15:05:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

Adam P. Jenkins wrote:
> I agree that the use of the word static to mean "class level" is 
> unfortunate.  The reason for its use shows Java's borrowing of syntax 
> from C/C++.  I'm not sure why you keep insisting on saying they're 
> global though.

They're global in that they are visible to every other piece of code.

 > Static variables and methods in Java are most definitely
> within the namespace of a particular class, and static methods have the 
> same access to private members of the class they belong to as non-static 
> members.

Putting something in a hierarchical namespace doesn't stop it from being 
global; namespace is not the same as scope and visibility, though it's 
often used as a cheap substitute...


mathew
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