Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho:
>
>> The anon enumeration trick has been an established C++ idom for years
>> (ISTR, but cannot check now, even Stroustrup himself advocating it).
>
> This was once desirable because you couldn't declare real constants in
> classes. Today,
>
> template <typename T>
> struct Foo
> {
> static const unsigned N = T::N;
> char bar[N];
> };
>
> works and the enum trick lost its importance.
Doesn't that still make N a real variable in memory and does not get
optimized away like enums?
MfG
Goswin
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