Two other kinds of static

[Peter Alexander]

On 4/06/11 8:35 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Mehrdad:
>
>> Why not just put your "static static" variable /outside/?
>
> Why don't you put your "static" variables outside? Because their name becomes visible by everyone else.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Well, only by everyone else in the module :)

I can see cases where you might want this "static static", but those 
cases appear to be quite rare, and considering that's it's quite easy to 
work around, I'm not sure it warrants adding extra complexities to the 
language.

Just my 2 cents.