STATIC - BASIC declaration that makes simple variables or arrays local
         to a procedure (or a DEF FN function) and preserves the variable
         values between procedure calls
 
Syntax
  STATIC variablelist
    - variablelist has the following syntax:
        variable[()][AS type][,variable[()][AS type]...
      Use the "()" characters to identify an array. See <DETAILS> for
      more information about the AS type clause.
 
See Also  <SUB>  <FUNCTION>  <DEF FN>