Re: Ada Smileys in C++ lib Conversion

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:04:54 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak
<see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 15 Sie, 03:16, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com> wrote:

>Example, please. Example that shows that I cannot use const object
>where constant is expected.

>> In this instance I wanted to declare an array whose size was the constant
>> expression in question.
>
>const int size = 7;
>int array[size];
>
>Is this what you need? No problem with that.

The real case was a bit stranger than previous reply (simplifying to a 1-D
array) 

const int xdim = 7;	
const int size = xdim;	// was a function of all dimensions
int array[size];
...
error: initializer element is not constant
error: variably modifed 'array' at file scope

So a "const" is not constant, says the compiler.

- Brian