"Derek Parnell" <derek at psych.ward> wrote in message news:op.s5ol8l1e6b8z09 at ginger.vic.bigpond.net.au... > I've forgotten: what's the syntax to automatically allocate on the static, > a variable whose type is automatically type-cast? Is it ... > > auto auto x = readtext(somefile); automatically allocate on the static? I don't understand.