Suggestion : virtual member data

nobody nobody at mailinator.com
Wed Sep 6 11:41:02 PDT 2006


Steve Horne wrote:
> Yes, but there is a fine tradition to uphold here. Storage class
> keywords must never make any sense!
> 
> After all, 'static' only really makes sense if you've used assembler
> in the past. And even then, why isn't there a 'bss' storage class for
> uninitialised static variables? And for C local variables, well,
> 'stack' or 'temporary' I could have understood, but 'auto'!!!!!
> 
> Actually, I've changed my mind. The new keyword should be 'magic' or
> 'freaky' or 'scarey' or something like that!

It sounds like this is a perfect time to suggest replacing 'const' with 'smurf' 
and thus with 'const' free we can use it here.



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