What about "local" ?
On Jul 14, 2016 4:17 AM, "Brad Chamberlain" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Chapel Users and Developers --
>
> In recent months, we've been talking about adding support for
> function-local "static" variables in the C sense: ones that are allocated
> and initialized once, and whose values are retained across multiple calls
> to the function. However, we're not crazy about using the keyword
> 'static', so are soliciting alternatives from the community.
>
> In more detail (and using 'static' as a placeholder keyword for now):
>
> Variables like the following...
>
> proc foo() {
> static var x = 1,
> var A: [1..100] real;
>
> ...x...
> ...A[i]...
> }
>
> could be considered to be equivalent to:
>
> private var chpl_foo_x = 1,
> chpl_foo_A: [1..100] real;
>
> proc foo() {
> ...chpl_foo_x...
> ...chpl_foo_A[i]...
> }
>
> where no procedures other than foo() would have any means of referring to
> 'chpl_foo_x' or 'chpl_foo_A'.
>
> The historical opposition to using 'static' for this purpose is that it's
> too compiler-/CS-centric and not particularly intuitive to computational
> scientists (particularly those who don't come from a C background).
> OTOH, C is not the worst precedent to follow. In any case, it seemed
> worthwhile to poll the community for alternative suggestions and opinions.
>
> Please send any proposed keywords to me, optionally with a short
> rationale. In a few days, I'll send out a summary of responses received
> (including our own brainstorming, which I don't want to influence you with
> at the outset).
>
> Thanks!
> -Brad
>
>
>
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