C++ frequently questioned answers

[Matti Niemenmaa]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Regan Heath wrote:
>> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> [snip normal "static this" version]
>>> 2.
>>> ---
>>> import std.stdio;
>>>
>>> class X {
>>>     static {
>>>             this() {
>>>         writefln("static");
>>>             }
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
>>> void main() {
>>> }
>>> ---
>>
>> Has this been reported as a bug?
> 
> IIRC Walter has said that "static this" needs to be two adjacent tokens
> for it to be parsed as such, and this is not a bug but working as designed.

And it's not only "Walter said", it's been explicitly stated in the doc for as
long as I can remember: http://digitalmars.com/d/1.0/class.html#StaticConstructor

"The static in the static constructor declaration is not an attribute, it must
appear immediately before the this"

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