A constant integral

[Tomás]

When you have a constant integral in a program, like the population of a
town, how do you declare it? A const variable or an enum?

Up until now I've always used variables, e.g.:

unsigned const population_dublin = 8274816;
I'm flipping through pages of Bjarne's book though at the moment, and
enum's seem pretty handy, as in:

enum { population_dublin = 8274816 }
Which style would you advocate?

-Tomás

[Victor Bazarov]

Tomás wrote:

When you have a constant integral in a program, like the population of a
town, how do you declare it? A const variable or an enum?
Whatever floats your boat.
Up until now I've always used variables, e.g.:

unsigned const population_dublin = 8274816;
Is it really 'const'? I wonder, nobody is born and nobody dies in Dublin?
I'm flipping through pages of Bjarne's book though at the moment, and
enum's seem pretty handy, as in:

enum { population_dublin = 8274816 }
Which style would you advocate?

The former unless you need to place it in a class (as 'static') and your
compiler is too old to support integral static const initialisation in the
class definition.

V
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