extern

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This is my scnerio. i have a class called student. public class student: studentbase public string name; public int age; public student (); - > i get a compilation telling "extern" key or body must be declared.

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  1. noun A person associated with but not officially residing in an institution, especially a nonresident physician on a hospital staff.

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  • This is my scnerio. i have a class called student. public class student: studentbase public string name; public int age; public student (); - > i get a compilation telling "extern" key or body must be declared. —  ASP.NET Forums
  • If we had several source files in our program, we might have declared some of our functions as extern and implemented them in different files; such functions would be available anywhere in our source files by nature of having been declared extern. —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
  • I have a global variable declared:. h: extern ViewMaster* g_master_view; and that is nothing more than: —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • I hope so, when not meaby some talented ahk coder should take a look at thsi, cause i think its better to habve a stand alone application, and not a tool with an extern dll file or even a directory! —  AutoHotkey Community
  • Bool)] private static extern bool PacSetLEDStates (int id, ushort data); —  AutoHotkey Community
 

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  1. Latin externus, external; see external.

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  1. from French externe, outer, outward (as a noun, a day-scholar), = Spanish Portuguese externo = Italian esterno, from Latin externus, outward, external, from exter, outward: see exterior.
 

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