is this static legal?

[bigearsbilly]

I understood this to be illegal, but it works on my
gcc 4.2.1

struct seconds {
    static const int scale = 0;
    ...
};
struct milliseconds : public seconds {
    static const int scale = 3;
    ...
}

what say you?

[Bazzy]

it is, static const integral types can be initialized like so.

[bigearsbilly]

I see.

thanks bazzy

[ne555]

gcc has some extra features
If you want to avoid them use the flag -pedantic-errors -std 90 (or 99)

[bigearsbilly]

it works ok with:

-std=c++98

that's good enough for me.
thanks people.