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In article <487q1e$peq@aztec.co.za>, dharley@aztec.co.za (David Harley) wrote:

>>  - 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.
>> 

try :

class Base {
    virtual data_type& data() { static data_type BaseData; return BaseData; }
    };

class Derived : Base {
    virtual data_type& data() { static data_type DerivedData; return
DerivedData; }
    };

I agree that virtual-static-data and virtual-static-member-functions are
something that is missing in the language, can be easily added and will be
useful.

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