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Re:Who Needs Main() Anyway? by MathMonkeyMan on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:58PM (#34468448)
It's the same as in C. The observation here is that variables with static storage duration can be initialized by running user code before main() begins.
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Re:Who Needs Main() Anyway? by xjwm on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:31PM (#34471371)
Oh! Thank you. That makes much more sense now.
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Re:Who Needs Main() Anyway? by colejohnson66 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:48PM (#34480807)
It’s also the same in .NET. If your Main() function references types that have a static constructor, the constructors could run before Main().

It’s a surprising thing when one first discovers it, but it makes a lot of sense.

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