Re: Globals/"static" access in OO languages. (Was: Singleton quintessence)

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Globals/"static" access in OO languages. (Was: Singleton quintessence)
Date	2013-09-15 17:18 +1200
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Robert Miles wrote:
> On 9/14/2013 1:31 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
>> On 9/14/13 11:14 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 9/9/13 6:09 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> [snip]
>> Hmm, I could see the entry point of the program accepting a "System"
>> object, which provides access to those resources.
>>
>> At the same time, I'm not really sure those are the same concept as
>> static.  Perhaps behind the scenes they are. So system calls may need
>> to access "static" data, but the application itself wouldn't directly
>> access static/global data.
>>
> At least in C, "static" means that the value(s) of the object never
> change as the program runs; this is used mainly to tell the compiler
> that it can use optimizations that depend on these values never changing.

s/static/const/

-- 
Ian Collins

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Singleton quintessence bob <bob@coolfone.net> - 2013-09-07 18:36 -0700
  Re: Singleton quintessence Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-09-07 18:49 -0700
    Re: Singleton quintessence Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-09-07 22:12 -0700
  Re: Singleton quintessence Ney André de Mello Zunino <zunino@softplan.com.br> - 2013-09-09 14:17 -0300
    Globals/"static" access in OO languages. (Was: Singleton quintessence) Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-09-09 15:09 -0700
      Re: Globals/"static" access in OO languages. (Was: Singleton quintessence) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2013-09-14 14:14 -0400
        Re: Globals/"static" access in OO languages. (Was: Singleton quintessence) Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-09-14 11:31 -0700
          Re: Globals/"static" access in OO languages. (Was: Singleton quintessence) Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2013-09-14 23:50 -0500
            Re: Globals/"static" access in OO languages. (Was: Singleton quintessence) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2013-09-15 17:18 +1200
  Re: Singleton quintessence "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2013-09-10 17:34 -0500
  Re: Singleton quintessence Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2013-09-14 11:34 -0700

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