• Andrej Mitrovic (41/41) Jul 20 2011 import std.stdio;

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
    writeln("test");
    test();
    writeln();
    writeln("test");
    test();
}

struct Foo
{
    int state;
    this (int i)
    {
        state = i;
    }

    ~this()
    {
        writeln("dtor");
    }
}

void test()
{
    static Foo foo = Foo(1);
    writeln(foo.state);
}

Prints:
test
1
dtor

test
1
dtor

Shouldn't static variables be left untouched? I tried to use a struct
to handle an external device context, however the dtor would be kept
called between function calls, so this caused crashes for me.

Using a class instead fixes my issue of course.

I thought "static" for variables implied it has lifetime until the end
of the application, regardless of whether the memory for the variable
was allocated on the heap or is in the .data segment or somewhere
else.