Christopher Kohlhoff wrote:
Hmmm, weird. Do you happen to have the relevant section number in the standard handy?
OK, I've been chasing this down and it seems the mistake is mine <g> long-winded excuse: a while back I used a struct with a const int member as an example for one of my hobby-horse issues that the C++ language needed simplifying, until it was pointed out to me this was not legal. I sat and started at the standard long enough to convince myself that this person was right, and verified it with the Comeau online compiler. I repeated both experiments this weekemd, but only get a warning from Comeau, and the parts of the standard that ban this usage all apply in certain contexts (such as when used as a base class) So I withdraw my objection, and will file another bug report with Borland. Thanks. -- AlisdairM