From: "Phlip" <see AT web DOT page>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Help : warning invalid initializer
Date: 23 May 1999 19:09:41 PDT
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NG Chi Fai wrote:

>IOTable.hpp:11: ANSI C++ forbids in-class initialization of
non-const
>static member `IOTableIdentifiers'

>class IOTable
>{
> private:
> static const char*
>IOTableIdentifiers[]={"A","B","C","D","E","F,"G","H","I","J","K","L
","M","N","O","P",NULL};


ISO C++ lets one decare a static constant in a header:

    static int const MY_FAVORITE_NUMBER (42);

But your variable is not const; the compiler would accept this line:

    IOTable::IOTableIdentifiers[0] = "Z";

Your _first_ 'const' only means the compiler will not permit this
line:

    IOTable::IOTableIdentifiers[0][0] = 'Z';

> static const char* const IdentifierSuffix="_S";

By contrast, 'IdentifierSuffix' is elegible because the pointer
itself is constant.

>};

In the words of the Good Witch of the North, "You had the answer
with you all the time, only you had to learn it for yourself!"


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