alt Hacker NewsThat's a very weird comment, your spreading your knowledge and not really addresse what could have been changed in the article.
If I follow your comment, you mean that he could have use a non-static global variable instead and avoid mentioning "static" keyword afterward?
Oh! Thanks, I was not being as concrete as I imagined. Sorry.
Yes, the `static` can simply be dropped, it does no additional work for a single-file snippet like this.
I tried diving into Compiler Explorer to examine this, and it actually produces slightly different code for the with/without `static` cases, but it was confusing to deeply understand quickly enough to use the output here. Sorry.