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From: Chris_Sullivan@kcbbs.gen.nz (Chris Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: const in a class
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.014436.10060@kcbbs.gen.nz>
Date: 15 Jun 91 01:44:36 GMT
Lines: 17
Organisation: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

I want to be able to declare a local constant in a class ie a constant
wgose scope is restricted to the class.  This prevents any problems 
with a constant of the same name having scope outside the class.
I tried something like the following but Zortech and Turbo C++ don't 
appear to accept const in a class :-
 
class C {
  const int size = 1000;
  char array[size];
  ...
  }

In the end I had to replace the const with #define size 1000
but this changes any mainfest constant with the same name appearing 
outside the scope of class C.  I understand that const's are preffered
to #define in c++ but I can't find a way to do what I want.  Any ideas 
anyone?