Definitive list of storage classes

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, April 16, 2012 22:58:44 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 4/16/12 9:20 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Monday, April 16, 2012 19:57:04 Caligo wrote:
> >> So, since they haven't said anything, does this mean that neither
> >> Walter nor Andrei have the answer to this question? or is this
> >> something a lot more complicated ?
> > 
> > My guess is that they haven't read the thread, but I don't know.
> 
> I just did now and I don't quite get what the rumpus is. I don't have a
> rigorous definition of "storage class" as I have e.g. for type
> qualifier. The thing that matters is what a storage class is _not_, i.e.
> it doesn't change the type of the variable.

Well, the term gets bandied around a fair bit without an actual definition, and 
the fact that a big deal is made about something being a type qualifier rather 
than a storage class raises the question as to what on earth a storage class 
is. I raised the question primarily because of this question on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10150510/what-are-the-storage-classes-in-d

- Jonathan M Davis