Consider a simple class of which I create only a single instance (global variable), and that has a number of static member variables, one of which (s_lmdbEnv) is an instance of a C++ wrapper class of ...
Gilad makes the case that static, that staple of C++, C#/VB.NET, and Java, does not belong: Most imperative languages have some notion of static variable. This is unfortunate, since static variables ...
There was a time when the use of the word ain’t was widely considered unacceptable, at least in polite society. Indeed, at that time (and perhaps still today), many people did (and do) not consider ...