playing around with D

[Lionello Lunesu]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Carsten Scharfenberg wrote:
>> 4.
>>
>> By the way: what is the difference between
>> static const int        and         const int ?
>> Both variants work in the examples above.
> 
> I don't know what 'static const int' means. IMHO, it should be a 
> compiler error, since you're mixing storage classes (unlike C++, in D, 
> 'const' really means constant). Use 'const int' instead.

"static" is ignored in the global scope. And note that "const"s can have 
different values per instance:

class X {
   const int member;
   this(int x) { member = x; }
//...
}

This is still allowed. Don't ask me why, I think it's confusing.

L.