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From: A White <awhite AT sympatico DOT ca>
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Subject: g++: inheriting static members
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Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:54:03 GMT
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Greetings from Toronto, ON

I'm playing with a small bit of code and wanted to do the following:

class obj {
  public:
    static const char Name[];
};

class newbie: public obj
{
  ...
};

class doobie: public obj
{
  ...
};

I'd want to initialize the obj::Name to "SimpleObj", and the other two to
"newbie" and "doobie" respecitvely.

The compiler gives an error about redefing obj::Name and I can understand
that.  IS there an alternative?  I don't want to have to define a static
class member for every class the inheriets(?) from 'obj' - at some point
I'll forget, or the class structure gets bloated (okay, inheriting will
cause bloating, but it will be invisible to me eyes).

Thanks.
A White