Re: STL set class

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.stl
Date:
Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:07:22 -0500
Message-ID:
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"KBI" <KBI@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8C11AC4C-1486-4BF7-98A4-01C103FA02E7@microsoft.com

I am using VC++6.0. ( I know it is old but...)
I tried the following code and got C2664 compile error on line "
set <int> s5( s1_bcIter, s1_ecIter ); ".


VC6 compliler does not support member templates. In particular, your
code attempts to use this constructor:

template <typename It> set(It first, It last);

that is supposed to take arbitrary iterators. Again, VC6 doesn't support
this, and replaces it with

set(const value_type*, const value_type*);

So you can construct from a C-style array or from vector
(vector::iterator just happens to be a pointer in VC6 implementation),
but not from another set or any other container.
--
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    Igor Tandetnik

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