[mercury-users] Event handling in mercury

[Peter Schachte]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:55:08PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 17-Jul-2001, Holger Krug <hkrug at rationalizer.com> wrote:

> > Maybe better to use the term "static" than global, directly
> > corresponding to mainstream e.g. Java terminology.
> 
> OK, that's probably a good idea.

'Static' isn't really a very good name for it, even though it's common
practice.  I hate explaining to students that static doesn't mean what they
think it means (unchanging), 'final' does.  Static means "shared."

Really, "static variable" is an oxymoron.  I can't imagine what possessed
K&R to use that word (for two completely different things:  "having the
lifetime of the whole program execution" and "not visible outside this
file.")

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