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<LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI>
<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Jo Dillon <<A HREF="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:22:50 +0000</LI>
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True - I'd forgotten about that usage when writing the mail, simply
because using static local variables is heavily deprecated as being
non-reentrant. Something we should probably avoid in a multithreaded
mud :)
Adam Wiggins (adam#angel,com) spake thusly:
> It's slightly more complicated than that, due to C++ being a hack on top
> of C.  'static' is best thought of as a way to use global variables with
> a limited scope.  For example:
-- 
	Jo
Harmony - the project to create an LGPL Qt clone
<A  HREF="http://harmony.ruhr.de">http://harmony.ruhr.de</A>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00516" HREF="msg00516.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Jo Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Mon 26 Oct 1998, 16:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00517" HREF="msg00517.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Mon 26 Oct 1998, 17:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00518" HREF="msg00518.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Jo Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Mon 26 Oct 1998, 17:48 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00524" HREF="msg00524.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Mon 26 Oct 1998, 23:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00546" HREF="msg00546.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Jo Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Tue 27 Oct 1998, 09:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00441" HREF="msg00441.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 01:15 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00443" HREF="msg00443.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 01:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00446" HREF="msg00446.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 02:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00447" HREF="msg00447.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 02:58 GMT
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