Jeet Sukumaran wrote:

> Now here's something from the twilight zone:
>
> void foo(istream& in) {
>
>     std::vector<int> buf(std::istream_iterator<int>(in),
>                          std::istream_iterator<int>);

std::istream_iterator<int> names a _type_.

std::istream_iterator<int> (int) creates a temporary _object_.

See the difference ? See the problem ?

>
>     buf.push_back(3);  // for example
>     // error: buf not declared in this scope!!!???
>
> }
>
> As you can see, the problem is if buf is declared and defined as above,
> it does not exist in foo's scope!

Because buf declaration syntax is bogus, and the compiler
simply ignores it.

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Valentin Bonnard
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