[LC++]static const char*

[ianezz at sodalia.it]

Roberto Diaz, pigiando tasti a caso sul citofono, ha scritto:

 > class foo 
 > {
 >  static const int a = 1;
 >  // more things
 > };

 > I have no problems the compiler wont complaints..

That's strange, AFAIK it should complain in the same manner in both
cases. This is Java-like syntax, C++ doesn't work this way.

It shouldn't be possible to define AND initialize static
members in C++ (perhaps it doesn't complain because of basic
optimizations perfomed on integer constants?), and the correct way
should be:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Foo.h
----------------------------------------------------------------------
class Foo
{
private:
    static const int     a;
    static const char *  a_char_ptr;

 
    // more things...
}

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Foo.cpp
----------------------------------------------------------------------
#include "Foo.h"

const int
Foo::a = 1;

const char *
Foo::a_char_ptr = "text";

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