static const double pi = 3.1415;

[Nathan Sidwell]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> We were talking about static *member* constants, not plain static
> constants. The latter are well formed (they do not have to be initialized
> by a constant expression).
bzzt!
they have to be constant expressions in C, but the constraints are more
relaxed and may be evaluated at runtime (C99 [6.7.8]/4 and [6.6]/2,3,4)

In C++ they can be arbitrary expressions (C++ [8.5]/2)

nathan
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