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Originally Posted by [HLF]Southclaw So the keyword static is pointless in pawn? I may as well use global variables, or is the point of it to keep scripts ordered nicely, without having a huge list of global declarations at the top of the script?

They are useful.
Are not equal to global variables, because they are declared only in the current scope ..

pawn Код:

public OnPlayerSpawn(playerid)
{
    static
        lastPlayerSpawn
    ;
        
    printf("The last player on spawn is playerid %d", lastPlayerSpawn);
    return lastPlayerSpawn = playerid;
}
// It remains the old value and unreported in other scopes (only by declaring again)

The best definition would be:
Are global variables in a single scope (not the entire code)