13 Nov
2010
13 Nov
'10
1:10 p.m.
* If the type being initialized might not be an integer type, then we can use constexp or a static const declaration, but we can't use BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT (because it may be implemented in terms of an enum).
If you only intend to support compilers on which it is not implemented as an enum, it might be reasonable to use it for non-integer types (though one would have to take care of static initialization order...).
The point is, the only reason for BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT existing is as a workaround for broken compilers that require the enum workaround, so if we're excluding those, there's nothing really left ;-) John.