"Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen" a �crit dans le message news: > Yes, certainly this must have been the original meaning. How they came > to re-use the keyword for 'not externally visible' I don't know. > Presumabely to save the burden of a new key-word. Since a global variable is already "static" (in C sense), saying static again would have not changed anything, so they reused the key-word to mean something else. Sigh.... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr