Static stuff..

[David Faure]

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On Tuesday 31 December 2002 16:57, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:07, Chris Howells wrote:
> <snip>
> > I'd like to ask when stuff should be made
> > static and when not. Is there any good rule or not?
> <snip>
> 
> Think of static member functions and methods as "class members and 
> methods" as opposed to "_object_ members and methods" and you'll be 
> fine. I think that's the Smalltalk names for it.

If you read the patches on kde-cvs you'd see this is about "file static",
not about static class methods :-)

And the answer is: use "static" before a function when this function is only
used in this file - so it doesn't need to be exported, which saves one symbol
(e.g. among those exported by the library).

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