name of class as name of nonconstructor member

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2 total messages Started by Daniel R. Edelson Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:12

#49

Author: Daniel R. Edelson
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:12

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I think the following code is illegal, but am not
certain the draft Standard contains a prohibition.

   struct S {
	int S;
   };

Without explicitly discussing this case (as far as I have
discovered), I think the draft Standard forbids this for the
following reason.

	Whether or not the user declares one, S has a
	constructor. There may not be an outline function
	emitted, but S::S() can be called. Therefore, the
	declaration of "int S" redeclares as a datum an
	identifier that is already declared in the same 
	scope to be a function.

I don't consider this argument completely waterproof. 
If someone can phrase it more convincingly, I'd appreciate 
hearing the argument.

Thanks a bunch,
Daniel 
daniel.edelson@inria.fr

Re: name of class as name of nonconstructor member

#63

Author: Daniel R. Edelson
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:22

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In article <4011@seti.UUCP>, daniel.edelson@inria.fr (Daniel R. Edelson) writes:
|> I think the following code is illegal, but am not
|> certain the draft Standard contains a prohibition.
|> 
|>    struct S {
|> 	int S;
|>    }; 

Thanks to Jerry Swartz for pointing out the last line of 
section 9.2. The code is legal.

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