Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> > Remove the space in ". *" and "-> *".
>
> Thank you very much -- that worked, but is there any good reason why I
> should not be allowed to put a space there? When I can use:
>
> :: *
>
> in the same programs without an error, why can't I use
>
> . *
>
> or
>
> -> *
Because ".*" and "->*" are tokens, and you can't have a space in the
middle of an token, in the same way that you can't put a space in the
middle of "++", "+=", ">=" etc.
".*" looks like a combination of "." and "*", and "->*" looks like a
combination of "->" and "*", and in a sense they behave that way, but
".*" and "->*" are actually separate tokens, not a combination.
> (I like having my code neatly and generously spaced since I feel it
> looks cleaner.)
>
> I get no problem if I space the . and -> in other cases like:
>
> QWidget . show () ;
>
> or
>
> this -> show () ;
Here, "." and "->" are tokens. Putting a space between the "-" and ">"
in "->" would similarly result in an error, as would a space in the
middle of "th is". You can put a space between "(" and ")", though.
> So if there is no good reason for not being allowed to put a space
> between . and * or -> and *, I can report a bug against gcc asking for
> this error to be removed for being meaningless.
No, gcc is correct.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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