Globals resolution?

[LB]

There are several. Pick your poison :p

[chrisname]

Well, I'm going with "naming things after what they are".

[LB]

Think Systems Hungarian. This is the one I always think of when I think of Microsoft.

[chrisname]

I don't want to think about Hungarian notation. It gives me headaches.

[LB]

Then we agree that there should be a different syntax for accessing instance members than accessing static members.

[chrisname]

In C#, it is different, it just uses the same operator:

C++

class object {
public:
    static void* pointer;
};

object o;
o.pointer; // Bad (albeit legal).
object::pointer; // Better. 

C#

class Object {
    public static IntPtr Pointer;
}

Object o;
o.Pointer; // Bad (illegal).
Object.Pointer; // Best.