Re: std::string::assign range
On 3/6/2015 4:32 PM, Luca Risolia wrote:
Il 06/03/2015 18:06, Christopher Pisz ha scritto:
std::string textToParse(std::istream_iterator<char>(file),
std::istream_iterator<char>());
I take it back, something is fruity with Juha's suggestion. I see a
warning "warning C4930: 'std::string
textToParse(std::istream_iterator<_Ty>,std::istream_iterator<_Ty>
(__cdecl *)(void))': prototyped function not called (was a variable
definition intended?)" and cannot seem to use the string afterward
without compiler errors that claim it isn't a compatible type. I don't
follow.
According to the language rules "std::istream_iterator<char>()" is a
declaration of "function taking no arguments returning
istream_iterator<char>". To force the compiler to treat the construct as
an expression surround it with extra parentheses:
std::string
textToParse(std::istream_iterator<char>(file),(std::istream_iterator<char>()));
And to expand on that, the sequence of tokens
std::istream_iterator<char>(file)
can be also treated as a declaration of an object called 'file' of type
'istream_iterator<char>', the parentheses are superfluous and ignored.
Thus the entire original declaration of 'textToParse' is a declaration
of a function that takes two arguments and returns a std::string. The
name of the first argument ("file") in that case is ignored.
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