title: Initialize static string (either C-type or std::string) with respect to Google C++ Style Guide
body: <p>As per <a href="https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google C++ Style Guide</a>, section "Static and Global Variables" claims that: "As a result we only allow static variables to contain POD data. This rule completely disallows <code>std::vector</code> (use C arrays instead), or <code>string</code> (use <code>const char []</code>)." Suppose that my program need some static strings that are stored in a configuration file and will be loaded at runtime. Then how would it be possible to load strings into a <code>const char[]</code>?</p>