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From: | remove_this_mimo AT restoel DOT net_and_this (mimo) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: c++ const definition in djgpp 2.95 problem |
Date: | Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:11:56 GMT |
Organization: | MimoLand |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
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first of all thanks for your replies. i am afraid i didn't explain my problem and aim exactly enough - as a matter of fact i only found out today while reading the replies waht my aim really was. according to this one c++ reference i used to read this way of defining constants was meant to replace c-style-macros (#define). in version 2.81 it was possibly to define constants this way. the positive effect was that the constants were parsed by the prerpocessor (think so...) means that they were treated more or less like c-macros. at the same time they were "clean" and free from typical c problems. that's one reason why i don't want to define anything in the global scope as someone proposed. namespaces were not implemented in version 2.81 (could anybody could give me an example of how to use them?). the other solution - using static member constants - differs from the stated aim. defining a constant this way results in having more class mebers than before (again think so...), means that static members are simply not the same as this precompiler-"trick". to make it clear an example: class c{ static const int ciSize; static const apszString[ciSize]; }; this simply cannot be done with static members since at the time when the precompiler (??) reaches the second const it doesn't know the value of ciSize. i am rather sure that this is also the reason for the internal compiler error, which could be avoided if it were still possible to define consts the way i used to do. maybe there is another workaround - thanks in advance. cheers mimo
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