Re: System.Address'Size - not a static integer expression?

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no>]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no> wrote in message news:<7vlmbgks2a.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no>...
> > dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> > 
> > > Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<3CC03241.883A6E33@despammed.com>...
> > > 
> > > > Not really.  I just assumed the common meaning of static
> > > > (non-chnging) used in most computer science classes--even
> > > > those that teach C which has a REALLY wierd special meaning.
> > > 
> > > Actually the meaning in C is quite simple, it refers to the allocation
> > > mode, so a static variable in C is statically allocated as opposied to
> > > dynamically allocated -- very standard terms of usage. I certainly find
> > > the use of static in C more intuitive from a terminology point of view
> > > than "OWN" in Algol-60.
> > 
> > Close, but no cigar :-)
> > I suggest you look up the keyword 'static' in the C standard.
> 
> Of course I know what static means in C, I am explaining the underlying
> intuition of why the word static comes to be used rather than alligator :-)

But that is precisely my point. For one of the meanings of 'static' in
C, it could just as well have been 'alligator'. I do not see the
connection between 'static' and 'not extern'. I believe the original
poster also was thinking of these two different, and in my opinion,
uncorrelated meanings.