In general, static is a storage class specifier that can be applied to any data type. While static has many definitions, the definition that best applies to all three uses is that static tells the ...

I've come across something I don't see very often today: a global static function.Could someone please enlighten me as to the difference between a static and normal global function? My first ...

When it comes to API design, static classes are a bit of a bugbear. Quite often there are arguments both for and against exposing a given function as a static function as opposed to an instance ...

So I've been playing with C++ and XML (Xerces C++ DOM), and am working on a simple prototype class factory that creates instances of various classes based on the contents of a given XML file. To ...