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Is this legal?  Borland and Microsoft compilers will accept the following:

class AnyClass
{
    const int constInt;
}

The Borland compiler complains about the uninitialized constant, whereas
the Microsoft compiler does not.  If a constructor is present, both will
complain that the constant isn't initialized in the constructor, however
neither will allow you to assign a value in the constructor by simply
specifying "constInt= some value".  I have also attempted to initialize in
a global variable "int AnyClass::constInt",  to determine whether static
somehow became implicit -- still no go.  If this is legal, how is the value
initialized?

Would compilers stand a better chance of optimizing given the above via
constant propogation through inlined (member only?) functions applied to a
hard-coded instance of the object, or would it just be to help prevent
programmers' error?

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