Why constexpr must be static?

Question

An attempt to create a member of a struct with constexpr attribute without being static result in a compiler error(see below). Why is that? for a single constant value will I have this value in memory until program is terminatted instead of just scope of struct? should I back to use a macro?

struct foo
{
  constexpr int n = 10;
  // ...
};

error: non-static data member cannot be constexpr; did you intend to make it static?

Answer 1

I don't know the official rational. But surely it could lead to confusion. I, for one, can't see what it means for a non-static data member to be constexpr. Are you able to do the following?

struct foo {
  constexpr int n = 10;
  constexpr foo() { }
  constexpr foo(int n):n(n) { } // overwrite value of n
};

Or does it mean that the initializer must be constant always, i.e you are not allowed to write the above (because n is not constant/could potentially non-constant) but allowed to say

foo f = { 10 };

The rule that constexpr int n is simply ill-formed rather than being implicitly static seems good to me, as its semantics would not be clear IMO.