Re: static variable

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:59:03 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<49f9ee73-88e5-4354-8a49-4e09e560f2b2@d62g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 5, 1:17 am, Carmen Sei <fatwallet...@yahoo.com> wrote:

does static in C++ is exactly the same as in Java?


Not really. To begin with, many of the contexts where you might
use static in C++ don't exist in Java.

Static member variables in C++ are fairly similar to static
member variables in Java, at least if you abstract the dynamic
loading of Java.

the following static variable is Class variable that I can
call by Class Name

Configuration.RemoteType = xx;

#######################

class Configuration {
public:
        Configuration();
        void Initialize();

public:
        static RemoteType RemoteType;
        static ControllerType ControllerType;
};


The syntax is different in C++. There is no instance of the
class type itself, and you use the scope resolution operator to
access static class members, e.g.: Configuration::RemoteType.
(Alteratively, if you have an instance, you can access the
variable just as if it were a non-static member of that
instance.)

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