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On 06/ 4/11 02:48 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> Michael Doubez<michael.doubez@free.fr>  wrote:
>> On 3 juin, 03:53, ruben safir<ru...@mrbrklyn.com>  wrote:
>>> what is the anonymous name space and how is it accessed?
>>
>> In brief, the effect is the same as C 'static' for functions and
>> global variables.
>>
> I'm confused because i thought what static did was create a variable
> which isn't destroyed between function calls and remembers its state.
> How that was accomplished, I'm uncertain of.

The static keyword suffers from overload abuse.  In the global scope, a 
static variable has local linkage, at function scope it does as you say 
above.

>> // not in class of function scope
>> static int N; // N is only visible in file
>>
>> static void foo(){ // foo can only be called in file
>> // ...
>> }
>>
>> The interest is that it also work on type definition.
>>
>> namespace {
>>
>> // Bar can only be seen in file
>> class Bar
>> {
>> // ...
>> };
>>
>> }
>>
>> And it has also the same side effect that, when included in multiple
>> translation unit (through a header by example), each translation unit
>> will have its own definition of the class. This means that, by
>> example, class member variables are not shared.
>
> I thought class member variables are not shared by defauult?

I assumed he was referring to the member variable declarations.

-- 
Ian Collins

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  Re: Anonymous namespace Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-06-03 03:10 -0700
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        Re: Anonymous namespace Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-06-10 01:49 -0700
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            Re: Anonymous namespace Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-06-12 00:01 -0700
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