Re: static constants in a class
On 15/09/2011 22:32, Ian Collins wrote:
On 09/16/11 09:24 AM, Christopher wrote:
On Sep 15, 4:17 am, Ian Collins<ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On 09/15/11 08:50 PM, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
Urs Thuermann<u...@isnogud.escape.de> writes:
How should one define a constant, say of type int, in a class? The
only way that worked for me in all cases is to delcare the constant in
the class in the header file and define its value in the
implementation file:
---- foo.hh ----
class Foo {
public:
static const int N;
...
};
---- foo.cc ----
#include "foo.hh"
const int Foo::N = 10;
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[...]
Make it a inline static method:
class Foo {
...
inline static int N() { return 10; }
...
};
The inline is unnecessary, but even without it the solution isn't valid:
Foo::N() isn't a compile time constant.
Where did the OP require it to be a _compile_ time constant?
---- bar.cc ----
void f() {
int array[N];
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) { ... }
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I do not understand the template solution proposed, what are the
internal workings that make it advantagous?
It was unnecessarily complex.
Not unnecessary if you want a header file only solution to a problem; my
XML library is a header file only library but it doesn't have to
explicitly take advantage of the template trick for defining constants
as it is already composed of class templates.
/Leigh
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