All,
Anyone have any suggestions for completing the last line below:
public/private define a variable's scope.
int/char/double define a variable's type.
static/non-static define a variable's ____________.
I know what static variables are, I just can't think of a word or even 2 words to fill in the blank. (I'm building a symbol table and I need a pidgeon hole for the "static" keyword.)
Thanks,
-Bill
persistence
Excellent! Thank you!
-Bill
storage
In formal terms, "static" is a storage-class specifier.
storage
In formal terms, "static" is a storage-class specifier.
That doesn't uniquely define static though. There are other storage class specifiers, and data types in general can be described as partially defining a variable's storage attributes.
Unfortunately, persistence doesn't quite cut it either if we're talking about a language like C++ because the static keyword is overloaded to mean different things. At file scope, static would be better described as defining a variable's visibility. As a static class member, a better description might be to define a variable as shared between objects of the class. At function scope, persistence is an excellent choice of words.
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