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From: jkw@genrad.com (J. Kyle Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Constant data tables and classes
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Date: 29 Mar 91 16:23:02 GMT
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	I'm relatively new to C++, but have signifigant amounts of
experience with C.  It appears that C++ intentionally prohibits static
const tables within classes.  It would seem to me that allowing these
would provide a convenient way of hiding constant data tables used by
a class from outside use rather than using file scoped statics.  Does
anyoune know why this is disallowed?

						-Kyle Wilson (jkw@genrad.com)
						-GenRad Inc, Concord MA