• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Sep 18 2007
• Don Clugston <dac nospam.com.au> Sep 21 2007
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Sep 21 2007

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

I've got a situation like this:

struct A
{
   opEquals
   int idx = -1;
}


class Foo(Type)
{
    ...
    static const A  StaticA;
}


But it doesn't work when I try to do something like this in a function:


    A myA;

    if (myA == Foo!(Type).StaticA) { // <-- error here
    }

The error I get is:
    Error: can only initialize static const StaticA inside static 
constructor

Is this a bug?
I notice that it compiles if I make StaticA just "static" instead of 
"static const".

At the very least the compiler error text seems wrong since I'm not 
trying to initialize anything.

--bb

Don Clugston <dac nospam.com.au> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 I've got a situation like this:
 
 struct A
 {
   opEquals
   int idx = -1;
 }
 
 
 class Foo(Type)
 {
    ...
    static const A  StaticA;
 }
 
 
 But it doesn't work when I try to do something like this in a function:
 
 
    A myA;
 
    if (myA == Foo!(Type).StaticA) { // <-- error here
    }
 
 The error I get is:
    Error: can only initialize static const StaticA inside static 
 constructor
 
 Is this a bug?
 I notice that it compiles if I make StaticA just "static" instead of 
 "static const".
 
 At the very least the compiler error text seems wrong since I'm not 
 trying to initialize anything.
 
 --bb


Is StaticA getting initialized somewhere?
If not, that's probably the root cause (and the error message is a bit
misleading).

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Don Clugston wrote:
 Bill Baxter wrote:
 I've got a situation like this:

 struct A
 {
   opEquals
   int idx = -1;
 }


 class Foo(Type)
 {
    ...
    static const A  StaticA;
 }


 But it doesn't work when I try to do something like this in a function:


    A myA;

    if (myA == Foo!(Type).StaticA) { // <-- error here
    }

 The error I get is:
    Error: can only initialize static const StaticA inside static 
 constructor

 Is this a bug?
 I notice that it compiles if I make StaticA just "static" instead of 
 "static const".

 At the very least the compiler error text seems wrong since I'm not 
 trying to initialize anything.

 --bb


 Is StaticA getting initialized somewhere?
 If not, that's probably the root cause (and the error message is a bit 
 misleading).


It's not getting initialized anywhere, but it's a struct, so it has a 
default value with which it should be implicitly initialized.

Are you saying that I should be doing
     static const A StaticA = {-1};
?
I'll give it a try, but it doesn't seem like that should be necessary.
--bb