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In <DGEFp4.IBC@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>,
Kevin Ingalls <ingkl900@ccmail.ca.boeing.com> writes:
>Steven wrote:
>
>>class X
>>{
>>private:
>>   const int fifty = 50;
>>};
>
>I assume that what you are really asking is "how can I accomplish this
>with legal syntax?" Given that, try this:
>
>class X
>{
>	X() : fifty(50) {};
>private:	// private, public, or protected actually has nothing
>		// to do with it
>	const int fifty;
>};
>
>-or-
>
>class X
>{
>	X();
>private:
>	const int fifty;
>};
>
>X::X() : fifty(50)
>{
>}
>
I am not saying that the proposed solution is wrong, but I want to propose
a simpler solution:

class X
{
static const int fifty;
..
};
int X::fifty = 50;

Of course there is only one copy of the  constant in this example,
which is what the original example seemed to express.

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