On 12/30/2009 03:38 AM, Gerry Sweeney wrote: > Thats perfect and solved my problem, thank you very much. I now have > a better understanding of what the compiler is expecting. The > compiler could certinaly do with a more explicit error message in > this scenario, perhaps something like:- > > test.cpp:30: error: The item base_type::const_iterator is not known as a type > certainly would have helped Sure, but gcc doesn't tell you that because gcc doesn't know because the grammar is ambiguous. This is really a bug in the language: its grammar isn't context-free. Andrew.
