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In article <BASHFORD.95Oct31105612@toad.scripps.edu> bashford@scripps.edu (Don Bashford) 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.

I think perhaps you think that const member functions cannot modify
static data.  They can.  

The following is permitted:

   class A {
       static int a;
   public:
       void g () const { a++; }
   };

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