Objective-C error: initializer element is not constant

Question

Why does the compiler give me the following error message on the provided code: \"initializer element is not constant\". The corresponding C/C++ code compiles perfectly und

Answer 1

@dreamlax is correct, you can't have a const declaration whose initialization depends upon another (const) variable. If you need one to depend on the other, I suggest creating a variable that you can treat as a constant and initialize it only once. See these SO questions for details:

• Defining a constant in objective-c
• Constants in Objective C