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Brian V. McGroarty (brianmcg@interaccess.com) wrote:
: 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
Have you tried:
AnyClass::AnyClass
	: constInt(42)
{
}
The geenral idea seems to be to disallow any piece of code that assigns
a value using constInt=....
: 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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