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From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Constant data tables and classes
Message-ID: <20146@alice.att.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 14:05:35 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?

Is this what you want?:

	class X {
		static const Table t;
		// ...
	};

	const Table X::t = { /* lots of stuff */ };

If so, it works.