Static data members

[jmafc]

There are a couple of issues, #522 and #322, that discuss the subject topic, but it is unclear to me what is the stance with regards to it. The latter broached static in general but was closed (with a "perhaps we'll reopen it"). The former is open but veers in various directions without clarity.

As I understand, static member functions are supported: you just have to declare a function without a this parameter. However, I believe many static member functions are written as accessors for static data members, so if the latter can't be declared you are forced to declare/define the entire class with cpp1 syntax, is it not?

[MaxSagebaum]

In #522 I am still waiting a little bit on the go/no-go from Herb.

[JohelEGP]

The next metafunction should be a Cpp1-enum or enum class-like
(there's already commented out code for that in cpp2util.h and reflect.h2),
which should require static data members,
as I mentioned before at #522 (comment).
So it should be soon.