What's the secret to static class members

[Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 15:33:58 UTC, Guido wrote:
> The problem is actually much more profound. The classes need to 
> be declared outside the main() scope. WTF?!?!?!
>
> I put them in main() so they would be in scope. This seems like 
> a *MAJOR* design flaw with the language, not to mention the 
> compiler not giving useful feedback. This decision, if it is a 
> decision, makes no sense given all the attention to scoping 
> rules.
>
> I'm not interested in trading one set of bad language decisions 
> for another. Can someone fix this?

I wonder which language you usually use in your programming 
experience.