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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Smileys in C++ lib Conversion
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:53:03 -0400
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Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:39:34 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak
> <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>>So, there is a difference between a "constant expression" (roughly
>>equivalent to Ada's "static expression") and a "const object".
>>Array bounds require constant expression.
>
> So we have - even in C++ - a const object that cannot be used 
> where a constant expression is required.

Seems to me Ada and C++ are the same here.  It's the different
terminology that's confusing.
In Ada, a "constant" object initialized by a user-defined function call
cannot be used in a "static"   expression.
In C++, a "const"    object initialized by a user-defined function call
cannot be used in a "constant" expression.
Same thing, different words.

C is different from both C++ and Ada in this area.

- Bob