I'm currently reading Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" 4th Edition. In the first parts of the book, I found an usage of using
looks like following:
// Error is in these 2 lines
template<typename T>
using Iterator<T> = typename T::iterator;
*see [**] for complete program and error message*
This is exactly what I found in the page 105. When I turned this into a complete program and tried to compile it, g++
gave me this error masseage:
> g++ -std=c++14 -o fnd find_all.cpp
find_all.cpp:13:15: error: expected '=' before '<' token
using Iterator<T> = typename T::iterator;
^
find_all.cpp:13:15: error: expected type-specifier before '<' token
I can't find any problem in this code, (I'm new to C++, I can't find the problem with my little knowledge)( More confusingly I found this on Bjarne's book )
Could someone tell me why does that code makes an error?
NOTE: However If I replaced
Iterator<C>
withtypename C::iterator
(see below), It works fine, there is no error!
[**]Complete Program and Error Message:
// Error is in these 2 lines
template<typename T>
using Iterator<T> = typename T::iterator;
// -------------------------------------------
// For the completeness I'll include my complete program here
template<typename C, typename V>
vector<Iterator<C>> find_all(C& c, V v) // find all occurrences of v in c
{
vector<Iterator<C>> res;
for (auto p = c.begin(); p!=c.end(); ++p)
if (∗p==v)
res.push_back(p);
return res;
}
void test()
{
string m {"Mary had a little lamb"};
for (auto p : find_all(m, 'a'))
if (*p == 'a')
cerr << "string bug!\n";
list<double> ld { 1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6, 1.1, 1.1 };
for (auto p : find_all(ld, 1.1))
if (*p == 1.1)
cerr << "list bug!\n";
vector<string> strv { "blue", "yellow", "red", "white", "orange", "blue" };
for (auto p : find_all(strv, "blue"))
if (*p == "blue")
cerr << "string vector bug!\n";
}
int main(void)
{
test();
return 0;
}
ERROR MESSAGE:
> g++ -std=c++14 -o fnd find_all.cpp
find_all.cpp:13:15: error: expected '=' before '<' token
using Iterator<T> = typename T::iterator;
^
find_all.cpp:13:15: error: expected type-specifier before '<' token
find_all.cpp:16:8: error: 'Iterator' was not declared in this scope
vector<Iterator<C>> find_all(C& c, V v)
^
find_all.cpp:16:17: error: template argument 1 is invalid
vector<Iterator<C>> find_all(C& c, V v)
^
find_all.cpp:16:17: error: template argument 2 is invalid
find_all.cpp:16:18: error: expected unqualified-id before '>' token
vector<Iterator<C>> find_all(C& c, V v)
^
find_all.cpp: In function 'void test()':
find_all.cpp:30:31: error: 'find_all' was not declared in this scope
for (auto p : find_all(m, 'a'))
^
find_all.cpp:35:32: error: 'find_all' was not declared in this scope
for (auto p : find_all(ld, 1.1))
^
find_all.cpp:40:37: error: 'find_all' was not declared in this scope
for (auto p : find_all(strv, "blue"))
First <T>
must be omitted
template<typename T>
using Iterator = typename T::iterator;