Re: Enum oddity

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:33:00 -0400
Message-ID:
<h7107b$n0k$1@news.datemas.de>
Francesco wrote:

On 25 Ago, 16:28, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

Francesco wrote:

On 25 Ago, 11:44, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

[..]
The case I run into the most is when I want to initialize the
array directly, instead of using copy:

                    ^^^^^^^

    std::vector< int > my_vector(
        std::istream_iterator< int >( std::cin ),
        std::istream_iterator< int >() ) ;
Stupid compiler doesn't realize that if I'm naming it
"my_vector", then I don't want a function. (And I use this
idiom a lot, since if I'm not modifying the vector later, it
allows me to declare it const.)

Sorry for replying to a post which wasn't addressed to me, James, but
the code you posted above compiles and runs fine (it creates a vector
instead of declaring a function) - at least on my environment.

What environment is that? And how do you know it creates a vector?

 > Is it

really expected to rise the parsing problem?

Parsing problem? In what way? Try compiling this:

#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <istream>

int main()
{
     std::vector< int > my_vector(
         std::istream_iterator< int >( std::cin ),
         std::istream_iterator< int >() ) ;

     my_vector.size();

}

It's not the declaration of 'my_vector' itself that doesn't compile.
The declaration is not of an object, though. The compiler will choke
when I try using the dot operator to call the 'size' member function of
'std::vector'. And the reason is simple: 'my_vector' is not an object
but a function.


Victor, I'm taking on the habit to test the code before making my
assertions. I believe you didn't test your code, because no compiler
should accept declaring a parameter function called "std::cin". In
fact, it doesn't interpret that as a function declaration but as a
vector instantiation. Try that yourself.


You are correct, of course. My mistake. I did check with Comeau, and
it must have pointed that out, but I just concentrated on the second
error message and not the first.

Most likely the code isn't supposed to contain 'std::', and that must
have been the intention when James posted his snippet. Not an excuse
for my missing the first error message, just an observation.

V
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