Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >Angus Leeming wrote: >> In src/frontends/gtk/WorkAreaFactory.C you >> introduce a new static global variable.
> By the way, I have always believed that, in C++, the > keyword static in this case is to say that this > variable is _not_ global but reserved to this file. > This is different for a static variable inside a > function. So If I am right I am not polluting the > global namespace by doing that. Am I wrong there? What I meant by "global" was that the order of instantiation of variables that lie outside the normal program flow is undefined. As such, they're generally frowned on, especially in multi-threaded code. Anyway, it's a small point and probably irrelevant also. Let's drop it. Angus
