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From: lius@reef.cis.ufl.edu (S. S. Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: array size defined by a constructor
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Date: 22 Mar 91 17:57:10 GMT
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The attached C++ program will generate an error

    `order' undeclared, outside of functions.

Is there any reason why "order" in the class scope was not recognized?

Please reply by email.  Thanks for your help.

-- Prof. Sying-Syang Liu, lius@ufl.edu
   SERC, CIS Department, University of Florida, U.S.A.

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class mway {
protected:
  const int order; // order of the tree
  int k[order];
public:
  mway (int ord):order(ord){}
  // others
};