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schuenem@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Ulf Schuenemann) writes:

>clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) writes:
>[..]
>|> >class X
>|> >{
>|> >static const int fifty;
>|> >...
>|> >};
>|> >int X::fifty = 50;
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  (*)
[...]
>class X
>{
>};
>const int X__fifty = 50;
>
>It this works, why cant (*) work the same way ? The only 
>difference is, that X::fifty is a member and X__fifty isn't.

No, there is another, very signficant (from a compiler implementor's
perspective) difference -- X__fifty has internal linkage,
whereas X::fifty has external linkage.  If you take the address
of X__fifty in two different translation units, you will get
different results.  If you take the address of X::fifty in two different
translation units, you will get the same result.

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