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Is there any good reason why the following is disallowed?

class A
{
  virtual static s;
  f() { do something with s }
}

class B : A
{
  virtual static s;
...
}

 - the idea being, that each subclass of A can posess its own static member
that doesn't interfere with other subclasses, but which can be accessed
by methods of A.

The only work-around seems to be to declare s as non-static in A, and then
assign the static variable in the B's to A's s in B's constructor's (maybe
I should have used x instead of s!)

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