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In article 2cn@meg.tesser.com, ralphs@tesser.com (Ralph Shnelvar) writes:
>
>I've been following this thread for a while (but not, obviously, from
>the beginning), and I don't understand why you guys aren't using the
>"enum hack" to simulate a class static constant?

You can use the enum hack, but it isn't necessary. You can now (if
your local compiler supports the change) declare a static member of
any integral type as a manifest constant:
	class Foo {
	public:
		static const unsigned short max = 1024;
		...
	private:
		char buf[max];
	};
One advantage, not evident in this simple example, is that you can choose a
suitable type for 'max'.

The discussions have revolved around why it is, and whether it should continue
to be, necessary to provide a definition
	unsigned short Foo::max;
at namespace scope in one and only one place in the program.
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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