Declaring a const double[] in C#? [duplicate]

Question

I have several constants that I use, and my plan was to put them in a const array of doubles, however the compiler won't let me.

I have tried declaring it this way:

const double[] arr = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 73, 8, 9 }; 

Then I settled on declaring it as static readonly:

static readonly double[] arr = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}; 

However the question remains. Why won't compiler let me declare an array of const values? Or will it, and I just don't know how?

Answer 1

This is probably because

static const double[] arr = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}; 

is in fact the same as saying

static const double[] arr = new double[]{ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}; 

A value assigned to a const has to be... const. Every reference type is not constant, and an array is a reference type.

The solution, my research showed, was using a static readonly. Or, in your case, with a fixed number of doubles, give everything an individual identifier.

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Edit(2): A little sidenode, every type can be used const, but the value assigned to it must be const. For reference types, the only thing you can assign is null:

static const double[] arr = null; 

But this is completely useless. Strings are the exception, these are also the only reference type which can be used for attribute arguments.