On 2020-02-26, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:45 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-02-25, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> > We seem to have some confusion with the use of the word "static"...
>>
>> No doubt carrying on the tradition from C, where the 'static' keyword
>> is used to mean two completely different, orthogonal things.
>>
>
> ... neither of which has anything to do with what a physicist would
> define "static" as.
I'm not sure what the physics usage of 'static' is, but when used for
local variables in C, it sort of makes sense: it means that the
location of the variable within the address space won't ever change
during the program's lifetime. However, that's only half of what it
does in that context: it also means that the location won't be reused
for other things, and the location's contents will not change unless
it is "intentionally" written to by the program.
OTOH, the C usage of 'static' for file-scope variables is completely
off the wall. I suspect somebody just put all of the existing
keywords that weren't yet valid in that context into a hat...
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