Programming

· When objects of a class containing static data members are created, all the objects share one copy of the class’s static data members.

· A static data member can be accessed within the class definition and the member function definitions like any other data member.

· A fundamental type static data member can be initialized by default to 0.

· A class ‘s static members exist even when no objects of that class exist.

· A static member function can be called even if no objects of the class exist and the static functions are accessed using only the class name and the scope resolution operator.

· A static member function can only access static data member, other static member functions and any other functions from outside the class.

· Static member functions have a class scope and they do not have access to the ‘this’ pointer of the class.

· Static data members will never stores any garbage values.