private static

[Michael Hoennig]

Hi Bob,

BB>1.  How do I explicitly initialise a private static member variable?
You _MUST_ define it like this:

class fred
{
        static int fd;          // file descriptor; 0 is legit
};

int fred::fd = -1;

BB>2.  The following pair of statements appears to be legitimate in C,
BB>    but not in C++:
BB>        typedef char byte;
BB>        unsigned byte thing;

This would be a bug in your C compiler. It treats typedef's as
defines. But typedefs aren't defines!

Adios

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