Re: [boost] Re: erroneous use of BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT ?

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-10 06:36:35

Toon Knapen wrote:
> Would'nt it be better to advise library-developers to use an enum
> instead of BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT if their library does not contain a
> definition?

The problem with that is that, an enum cannot store a 64-bit integer 
constant, which is needed in some cases.

Matthias