static this sucks, we should deprecate it

[BCS]

Hello Don,

> BCS wrote:
>[...] Yes this gets
>> into some interesting "Is is illegal code" issues but...
>> 
> No.
> The problem with that is that it's a nightmare for portability. [...]
> You'd have to precisely define which scenarios are allowed. 

If those rules were added, I'd add more rules to a compiler I built but with 
a command line flag to turn them on.