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From: Kristof Provost <Kristof@sigsegv.be>
Subject: Re: can't initialize a constant using another constant?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:09:57 +0000
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On 2008-02-26 20:02:06 (+0530), Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Quite some time since I wrote. I hope you are all keeping well. :)
> 
> A strange thing I ran across this evening. I was not allowed to do:
> 
> const double lunarSynodicMonth = 29.53059 ;
> const double daysLunarPhaseAngleTakesPerDegree = lunarSynodicMonth / 360.0 ;
> 
> I got the following error:
> 
> wdf-karanas.c:17: error: initializer element is not constant
> make: *** [wdf-karanas.o] Error 1
> 
> I would be grateful if anyone could shed some light. TIA.
What compiler are you using? 
I did a quick test on g++ 4.1.2 (x86_64) and it seemed to be accepted
without warning.

Kristof
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