24 Nov
2009
24 Nov
'09
5:09 p.m.
2009/11/24 Hans Aberg
For some reason, 'chuck' does not instantiate class static constants until there has been an instantiation of the class itself.
Writing the value to the variable is deemed part of the constructor instead of the instantiation. You could get around this using a static member function to set all such values, that way you could have static members set to default values without a class instance. I'm not completely happy with the current behaviour as two elements of a single line are treated in very different ways without this being intuitively clear. Of course it could be argued that if this bothers us we simply shouldn't do it. Kas.