RE: [sv-bc] "Assignment ... to a constant expression"

> >
> >By the way, I just found the following example in 6.19.5.7:
> >
> >typedef enum { red, green, blue, yellow } Colors;
> >Colors c = c.first;
> >
> >This indicates that the 'point of declaration' is before the
> >initializing expression (as I would personally would expect).
> 
> Or at least that the person writing the example thought so.  Given
that
> the question has never been brought up and resolved in committee, I
> don't think we can consider this example definitive.
> 
> It does point out a situation where the self-reference actually has a
> useful purpose.
[DR] Then why not allow 

Colors c = Colors.first;

instead, which avoids the circular reference issue.
> 


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