From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-04T09:20:23+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19437-19455

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 19437-19455"
    on 03/02/04, ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:

|> |      static int count = 0;				      // <-- THIS STATIC
|>
|> I know.  It's still global with constant initializer.
|
|i'm not exactly sure how?  my understanding is from the K&R book.  if what you
|are saying is true, i'm not sure exactly how this works :

I wish I could explain better.

The scope of "static variables" are its enclosing block, but it is a
"global variable" that can only be seen from the block.  You know I
mean?  It's not a variable that initialized once.  From that reason,
"static" is not a proper name for new keyword.

|in any case it seems like it would be usefull to have this _ability_ if not
|the syntax (no one ever likes my syntax ideas ;-) ).

Maybe.  But since there's thread synchronization issue, things are
more difficult that they seem.

							matz.