Static class members/methods and scope

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 21 04:05:49 PDT 2011


On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:54:49 -0400, Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm certain this used to work:
>
> class Foo
> {
>      public static
>      {
>          void bar() {}
>      }
> }
>
> But I've found that now, anything inside the public static block is not  
> actually static. I get an error attempting to call Foo.bar(). If I do  
> this:
>
> class Foo
> {
>      public
>      {
>          static void bar() {}
>      }
> }
>
> ...it works as expected. I tested with the override attribute, in case  
> the handling of attributes had changed while I was away, but it works  
> fine using the first form. I assume this is a bug, or a regression. Am I  
> correct?

I would have expected the first form to work.  You can file as a bug and  
see what happens.  Worst case it gets closed as invalid :)

-Steve


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