Re: PIKE_MODULE_INIT/EXIT in a normal pgsql.pike file

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>*.pike is a class, and i need to instantiate it to get an object.
>*.pmod is an object, so when accessed it is always the same, aka a singleton,
>so whatever is in the pmod is globally accessible.
>
>the inside of both kind of objects is the same. whatever you can put in a
>*.pike object, can also go into a *.pmod.
>

I'll add that the question of static variables is mainly about scope
and namespace.

int f(int x)
{
  static int s;
  // code
}

can be implemented as

private int s;
int f(int x)
{
  // code
}

where the only difference between this and a real implementation of
static is that the variable is accessible from the other functions in
the object.

With static properly deprecated in 8.0 we could introduce this in 8.1.