Question

Just curious if it is syntactically possible to do something like this:

static (void) someFunc();

instead of, say,

static bla = someFunc();

so as to invoke someFunc only once when we go through that section of code? The (void) snippet doesn’t compile by the way.

Answer 1

No, static is intended only to work with value initialization.

To document that you aren’t interested in the return value, you could write:

static int unused = (someFunc(), void(), 0);

The void() is to prevent a comma operator being called; you could also write (void(someFunc()), 0) using a functional cast.