On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:49:29PM +0200, Maarten Kronenburg wrote:
Gerhard, Unfortunately I know nothing about threading. The integer class itself also has static variables, although not static integers. Will this then also be a threading problem?
I think that it would be bad idea to have static variables for more than one reason. If they can be changed, then that would be a problem for threading; but static variables give rise to other problems as well, like the global-initialization ordering fiasco. It would make it near impossible to use those types in constructors in a safe way (because the objects of those constructors COULD be used globally/statically too) or use them in a singleton for example. Imho, static members == huge problems, and should be avoided at all costs in something as general as a library. -- Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>