Declaring constant member variables

[Miserableman]

class bingbangbong {

public:

bingbangbong();
~bingbangbong();

/* some random functions */

const int SETTING_ONE = 0;
const int SETTING_TWO = 1;
const int SETTING_THREE = 2;

/* more settings etc */


}


I'm trying to set member variables as constant, so I can go bingbangbong::SETTING_ONE etc. How do I do this, as it certainly doesn't work as above :O(

[pablissimo]

static const?

[queball]

class bingbangbong {
typedef enum {
SETTING_ONE,
SETTING_TWO,
SETTING_THREE } settings;
};

lolol



here:

class bingbangbong {
static const int SETTING_ONE;
static const int SETTING_TWO;
static const int SETTING_THREE;
};

const int bingbangbong::SETTING_ONE = 0;
const int bingbangbong::SETTING_TWO = 1;
const int bingbangbong::SETTING_THREE = 2;

(the values don't have to be in the same file as the header)

[Miserableman]

How thoroughly bloody bizarre. Cheers quey!

[MT]

Surely its just as convenient and a hell of a lot more straightforward to #define CONST 3

Or is that not OO enough for you crazee C++ types?

[pablissimo]

Originally posted by MT
Surely its just as convenient and a hell of a lot more straightforward to #define CONST 3

Or is that not OO enough for you crazee C++ types?

If he's making a class for redistribution it's just tidier for the end user; no conflicts of consts then, innit

[Miserableman]

I want to be able to do this kind of thing from outside the class:

if (bingbangbong.getSetting() == bingbangbong::SETTING_ONE) {
.....destroy_the_universe_etc();
}

Which doesnae work with #define!

[pablissimo]

Aren't #define's global? So you would be able to use them outside the class anyway...