History: Static comes from the Greek "statikos" meaning fixed or unmoving.
More History: Static memory or Dynamic memory (same for accesses) has been used since 1959+ TIP: Avoid overloading at all costs (the bane of other ill conceived programming languages) It sounds like everyone is really just trying to come up with a term that denotes a "lifetime" of a variable were that variable could also have many altered states 2 of which being "mutable" or "immutable" or even sets of states down the line ? So other choices are: fixed firm stable survive(d) aged living (not dead yet) live (still not dead yet) bound If your talking about coming up with a term that denotes a "scope" of a variable, then your choices are ... global Completely depends on what your really trying to denote or define. -- -Thad http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry
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