Re: Correct use of templated class'es inner structs/classes?

[Tomas Ukkonen]

On Fri, 07 May 2004 07:04:30 -0700, Michiel Salters wrote:

> Tomas Ukkonen <tomas.ukkonen@iki.fi> wrote in message 
> news:<pan.2004.05.07.09.54.54.797578@iki.fi>...
>> Code very close to a example below fails to compile
>> because gcc 3.4.0 complains:
>> "error:   expected a type got 'Y<T>::particle'"
>> at Y<T>::func()'s iterator declaration.
> 
> Indeed. Without knowing T, gcc cannot tell whether particle is
> a member type, a data member, a member function, or a member template. 
> 
> The solution is (obviously) to tell the compiler: 
> 
> std::vector<typename Y<T>::particle> list;

Thanks. I managed to get gcc to accept something similar
while waiting for reply. I have never really read how
templates should work according to standard so I wasn't
sure what the correct behaviour of gcc should be.

-- 
Tomas Ukkonen