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From: Luciano Moreira - igLnx <lucianolnx@ig.com.br>
Subject: Re: "static const" attribute in C++ (How to ?)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:30:34 -0300
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Of corse, it's was my first attempt. But, the compiler says that "pure 
specifier can only be specified for functions". Thus the below code 
seems to be incorrect.

	class Foo
	{
	public:
		static const int DEFSIZE = 100;
	};


Luciano


Glynn Clements wrote:

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++.
>
>  
>