Const sucks

[Janice Caron]

On 9/11/07, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with:
>
>  class C
>  {
>      const int X = 42; /* not stored; address may not be taken */
>      static int Y = 42; /* consumes memory; address may be taken */
> }

Of course, I actually meant:

 class C
 {
     const int X = 42; /* not stored; address may not be taken */
     static const int Y = 42; /* consumes memory; address may be taken */
 }

The point being that for constant data to consume memory
*per-class-instance* is silly.