Re: object construction recognized as function declaration

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:16:49 +0200
Message-ID:
<4eb6jiF1e7t4vU1@individual.net>
* tthunder@gmx.de:

Hi @all,

there are always details, why it isn't possible to create a consistent
framework :(
However, here some code:

//--------------

class foo
{
     public:
          foo(){}
};

class fooConst
{
     public:
          explicit fooConst(const foo &p_Foo){}
          void doSomething() {}
};

void test()
{
         fooConst myObject(foo());
         myObject.doSomething(); // <--- Error
}

//--------------

This doen't work on all compilers I have tested, because "fooConst
myObject(foo());" is assumed to be a funtion declaration!

I know that I could write:

foo aFoo;
fooConst myObject(aFoo);

But I don't want to!

Is there another keyword, possibility,........ you can think of ???


You can

   * Declare the argument object as a local variable, or

   * use extra parentheses, or

   * use the old "=" initialization syntax.

You should

   * Try to include fewer misdirections in your examples.

Hth.

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