Ah, sorry Hans, I didn't read your original example properly. Static members should be initialized the first time the class is referenced, at the latest.<div><br></div><div>/Stefan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/25 Kassen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:signal.automatique@gmail.com">signal.automatique@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hans;<div class="im"><br><br>> That is my worry, too: lack of intuition. It invites errors.<br><br><br></div>I agree. The current behaviour is predictable, it could be called "expected" but I don't feel it's intuitive and I agree that it invites error. It's currently on the bugs page though it should probably be on a "open for debate and better suggestions" page instead.<br>
<br>I feel there is a issue here but I'm not sure I have a alternative. We could have -for example- have a parser warning at this. We could also simply have attempts at setting values at definitions of static members result in a error or we could make a exception and set the value at defining the class itself. Then again; what if it's not a int being set as in;<br>
<br>3 => static int foo;<br><br> but a function-call returning a int? This;<br><br>my_fun() => static int bar;<br><br>might have side effects that could be quit far-ranging.<br><br>I think that if it were my call I'd suggest leaving this be and dealing with it once we get 'round to constructors. It does have uses as it is; for one thing it can tell us whether this static member is a member of a class that has a instance at all, in convenient -if hackish- shorthand. Classes and instantiation have far worse issues than this, though indeed this particular behaviour could stand documentation.<br>
<br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br>
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