Re: Compiler doesn't create some static class members

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

Larry I Smith <larryXiXsmith@verizon.net> writes:

> His example had this for the initialization code:
> 
>    const metadata A::metadata("my class A");
> 
> Since the class-static variable names are all 'meta', the
> correct initialization code would be this:
> 
>    const metadata A::meta("my class A");

I assume that was just a typo.
The code as he wrote it would not compile:

$ g++ -c junk.cc
junk.cc:16: error: `const metadata A::metadata' is not a static member of 
`class A'

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