Re: Is MSDN wrong? or I made a mistake? about static member function

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:11:02 -0700, Fei Xu
<FeiXu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/480b7kf7.aspx, it says that
pGdiObject->DeleteTempMap(); // Causes compiler error
But I'm confused for a static member can be called by the object or a pointer.
Is there anything wrong of my understanding?

Static member functions can be called using that syntax, but the object
reference or pointer isn't evaluated. So for a static member function, the
following are equivalent:

p->f();
T::f();

The second one is much better style.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
.

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