Expressions in initializers

[Christopher R Volpe]

In article <17294 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, I wrote
|>
|>"The square root of two" can be evaluated at compile time, but "sqrt(2.0)"
|>is an invocation of a function. How is the compiler supposed to know
|>what sqrt is? I could have in another file:
|>
|>double sqrt(double x)
|>{
|>  return x - 1.0;
|>}

It was pointed out to me that this is illegal.                   
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Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr at crd.ge.com