Re: Enum oddity

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:01:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<38af82da-94d3-4f4e-9e84-4bfb7fe3a06f@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 25, 4:20 pm, Francesco <entul...@gmail.com> wrote:

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

On Aug 24, 8:18 pm, Jerry Coffin <jerryvcof...@yahoo.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. Is it really expected to rise the
parsing problem?


Oops. I simplified it a little too much for posting. The
problem only occurs if you have an unqualified variable name
instead of std::cin, e.g.:

    std::ifstream input( filename ) ;
    std::vector< int > my_vector(
        std::istream_iterator< int >( input ),
        std::istream_iterator< int >() ) ;

Note that you won't get a compiler error until you try to use
my_vector as a vector; both of the above statements are
definitely legal C++, it's just that the second means something
different than what was wanted.

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