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> However, there is a neat little workaround. You can initialize the const 
> *prior* to your object being instantiated -- you can verify this by
> printing  out the value in your constructor:

I would consider the following as an alternative:

class foo
{
    int bar() { return 50; }
};

"foo::bar()" would be compiled as inline code, and the compiler may then
bring the 50 into the expression being evaluated as a literal for further
optimization analysis.

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