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Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined.

From Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined.
Date 2012-03-02 00:56 -0800
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> 
> Please quote properly.  This is Usenet, not a web forum.
> 
Sorry I didn't mean to do something wrong. As you'd have guessed I'm a newbie
to groups and programming, so I'm sorry if I did something wrong.
Where can I find guidelines to post in this group?

> If you don't define the item static, you could reference it from
> another translation unit with an "extern double const L_COS;"  Also,
> you *couldn't* define another (non-static) L_COS in another
> translation unit in the same program, since the external names will
> then conflict.

Thanks (to Christian as well), now I have clear the difference :)

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static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 00:28 -0800
  Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-01 02:55 -0600
  Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-01 01:25 -0800
  Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 06:51 -0800
    Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2012-03-01 19:21 +0100
    Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-01 12:21 -0600
      Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 00:56 -0800
        Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-02 03:53 -0600
          Re: static constants are not local to the file they're defined. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 02:42 -0800

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