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>>>>> Don & <bashford@scripps.edu> writes:

> Thanks Jason, I've wondered about that too.  If you can't mix
> static and const, what way do we have of promising that a static
> member function will not alter static data?  If there is no
> way at the moment, perhaps the standard should provide one.

A more general facility is a way to specify that a particular function has
no side effects; distinguishing static data members from other global data
for this purpose seems pointless.  Many compilers (C as well as C++)
provide this as an extension, but I don't see any chance of it being
standardized.

Jason

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