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I am working on a game and have an interesting question. I have some game-wide constant values that I want to implement in one file. Right now I have something like this:
constants.cpp
extern const int BEGINNING_HEALTH = 10;
extern const int BEGINNING_MANA = 5;
constants.hpp
extern const int BEGINNING_HEALTH;
extern const int BEGINNING_MANA;
And then files just #include "constants.hpp" This was working great, until I needed to use one of the constants as a template parameter, because externally-linked constants are not valid template parameters. So my question is, what is the best way to implement these constants? I am afraid that simply putting the constants in a header file will cause them to be defined in each translation unit. And I don't want to use macros.
Thanks