Re: Problem with templates and iterators

From:
Thomas Maeder <maeder@glue.ch>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
18 Nov 2006 11:44:33 -0500
Message-ID:
<m2wt5tp5n1.fsf@glue.ch>
"Bart Decuypere" <postit@post.it> writes:

CTest.h
---------

#ifndef CTEST_H_
#define CTEST_H_

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

using std::istream;
using std::vector;


Using declarations at namespace scope (particularly in the case of the
global namespace) in a header are a bad idea, because they can't be
undone later.

template <class T>
class CTest
{
  template<T>
  friend istream& operator>>(istream& in, const CTest<T>& test);
};

template <class T>
istream& operator>>(istream& in, const CTest<T>& test)
{
  vector<vector<T> > rows;
  //does not compile
  vector<vector<T> >::iterator it=rows.begin();


What the name 'iterator' names depends on the template parameter T;
it's thus called a 'dependant name'. Unless told otherwise, the
compiler has to assume that dependant names do *not* name types. This:

     typename vector<vector<T> >::iterator it=rows.begin();

should help.

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