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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: const in a class
Message-ID: <768@taumet.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 14:28:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.014436.10060@kcbbs.gen.nz>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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Chris_Sullivan@kcbbs.gen.nz (Chris Sullivan) writes:

>I want to be able to declare a local constant in a class ie a constant
>whose scope is restricted to the class...

>class C {
>  const int size = 1000;
>  char array[size];
>  ...
>  }

Unfortunately, this is not supported in C++.  The best you can do
is to declare an enum:
class C {
    enum { size = 1000 };
    char array[size];
    ...
};
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com