From 853355093907182769 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,d2ef22ccb120b652 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: sgganesh@gmail.com (Ganesh) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: A::A::A::A Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:27:47 GMT Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 21 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <619f36eb.0410050311.725da58f@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1096990072 5291 158.152.254.254 (5 Oct 2004 15:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:27:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64-mulga_r1 (2004-01-11) on mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64-mulga_r1 X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i95FRl0O007958; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:27:47 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:11:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Level: X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!news.zanker.org!news.amigo.co.uk!news.clara.net!wagner.news.clara.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:2968 > Is this code really valid? > a.A::A::A::A::A::A::foo(); >From 3.4.5[4], "If the name is found only in the scope of the class of the object expression, the name shall refer to a class-name". Since the qualifying "class-name-or-namespace-name" is not a class-name, it is not valid. However, in the compilers I checked the code with, g++ 3.2, aCC 3.55, comeau online, it passed. In VC++, it gives a misleading error "error 2039: '__ctor' : is not a member of 'A'"; might be that the vc++ compiler confuses series of A::A as constructors and tries to interpret it. -Ganesh --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]