On Tuesday 28 August 2007 15:45:15 Helge Hafting wrote:
> That's a really stupid argument.  Thw word "static" has too many meanings,
> so lets disable some of them ???  The sane thing would be a
> clean rename from "static" to several new keywords - one for each
> use.  And to keep the existing nice functionality.

Don't forget that:

- it needs to retain compatibility with C
- it needs to retain compatibility with old code

A nice presentation about some of the issues can be found here:
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/C%2B%2B0x%20-%20An%20Overview.html

-- 
José Abílio

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