Re: [Vala] Static local variable

[Joseph Montanez <jmontanez gorilla3d com>]

He did answer your question:

 - Jacques: "Why don't append it in the language specification."
 - pancake: "it's out of the design principles of Vala"

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Jacques-Pascal Deplaix
<jp deplaix gmail com> wrote:
> Yes, but it's not my question...
>
> That is: Why don't append it in the language specification.
>
> On 02/06/2011 14:48, pancake wrote:
> > in short: 'static' in vala have different meaning than in C.
> >
> > If you want to do this use a field from the container object of the given
> > class.
> >
> > In order to do this (C-like static) we should define a new keyword like
> > 'permanent', but
> > it just make things look wrong. And it's out of the design principles of
> > Vala.
> >
> > On 06/02/11 12:19, Jacques-Pascal Deplaix wrote:
> > > I have a question for a long time:
> > > Why Vala don't support static keyword for a local variable ?
> > > It would be really usefull !
> > >
> > > C support static keyword as local variable. So,
> > > Why valac don't "put" static keyword directly in C file ?
> > >
> > > I don't know yet valac internal compilation code, so I can't patch it for
> > > now...
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