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- From: lars.farm@nts.mh.se (Lars Farm)
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- X-Original-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 12:46:15 +0100
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- Date: 09 Mar 96 15:42:58 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: 'const' in header files
- Organization: pv
- References: <AD64B66E966816216@sleipner.nts.mh.se> <4hn54s$3am@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- In article <4hn54s$3am@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>,
- clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) wrote:
-
- >Next, why single out this one particular optimization?
-
- To kill the #preprocessor.
-
- I do not consider it an optimization. It is not about performance. It is
- about semantics. I have viewed X from "const built_in_type X =
- some_compiler_generated_value;" as a constant. More or less as some kind of
- #define that knows about scope. Perhaps this view is incorrect. It is not a
- constant. It is a local variable, but a variable you're not allowed to
- alter?
-
- To me there is a difference in interpretation between constant and
- variable. I would like to see that semantic difference reflected in the
- standard. I believe that it already is to some extent, but only for integer
- types.
-
- const int N = 10;
- int arr[N]; // this is not about optimization, is it?
-
- In article <4hqd3e$n7k@news.aosi.com>,
- yeager@aosi.com wrote:
-
- >One area where such a requirement conflicts with existing rules would
- >be if the constant object has a constructor. Then the existing rules
- >would not allow the constant to be omitted since the constructor must
- >be called (especially if it has detectable side effects) even if the
- >constant is not used in the particular compilation unit.
-
- I talk about built in types: short, int, float, double, char, etc. Their
- constructors do not have any side effects.
-
- --
- Lars Farm, lars.farm@nts.mh.se
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