Newbie: anything resembling static?

[John Roth]

"anton wilson" <anton.wilson at camotion.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way of imitating "static" C function variables without
having to
> define the variable as a global? I just want persistent function
variables
> but i want them to be local to the function namespace. :S
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> Anton

Not obviously. The two ways of doing something similar are:

1. Use a class; the class instance will keep persistant variables

2. Use a simple generator. All of the function's variables
are persistant across calls to the generator.

HTH.

John Roth
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