Why aren't static const floats allowed?

Question

I have a class which is essentially just holds a bunch of constant definitions used through my application. For some reason though, longs compile but floa

Answer 1

what about:

class MY_CONSTS
{
public :
    static const long   LONG_CONST;
    static const float FLOAT_CONST;
};

const long MY_CONSTS::LONG_CONST = 1;
const float MY_CONSTS::FLOAT_CONST = 0.001f;

(though, i cannot give any explanation of this specific case...)