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Marin David Condic wrote:
> O.K., but C++ also has declarations, so there *is* an analogy. Granted, the
> whole scheme of things is dramatically different, (Header files don't
> actually "execute" and inclusion of such things is lexical inclusion, etc.)
> but you can see the same sort of things happening. When declaring an object
> of a given class, space is allocated, its constructors are executed, etc.
> That would be "elaboration" in a broad sense of the word.

Closer would be the initialization of C++ static members, particularly 
if you assign initial values based on a function call. You can even get 
into some of the same issues, if you do this a lot and some of the 
initilizations depend on other static members being initialized.