Re: "static const" attribute in C++ (How to ?)

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:52:04AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Luciano Moreira - igLnx wrote:
> 
> > Is very commom in Java, the declaration of "static const" attributes 
> > into class escope. Is possible to do anything similar in C++ ?
> > Using another techniques ?
> > 
> > All we need is to have a public static symbol into a class escope that 
> > can be used to declare a array, intead of using a lot of global symbols.
> 
> It appears that you are allowed to initialise constant static members
> within the declaration, so you can do this:
> 
> 	class Foo
> 	{
> 	public:
> 		static const int DEFSIZE = 100;
> 	};
> 	
> 	class Bar
> 	{
> 	public:
> 		char myArray[Foo::DEFSIZE];
> 	};
> 
> This compiles with "g++ -ansi -pedantic", so it's probably standard
> ISO C++.

Does this also work when put in a header or only when put directly in
the cpp file?

> 
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> Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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