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stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:
|It would be very useful to allow private static member
|functions to be declared outside the class declaration.
|For example:
|      private static void C::helper(C* p)
|      {
|           /* This function does something useful */
|           /* that depends on access to private members of C */
|      }
|Such a declaration would be visible within its file only, and
|only to other member functions of the same class (or their
|friends in the same file).
|
|This could dramatically reduce recompilation problems
|in environments where any change to a ".h" causes massive
|recompilation.

Since you're only asking for this for static member functions,
you can get pretty much the same effect in the existing language,
by using a friend class.

   class C {
      // ...
      friend class FriendOfC;
   };

Put the static member functions in FriendOfC instead of C; then
you can add or remove functions without forcing the users of C
to recompile.

-- 
Patrick Smith
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