James Kanze <james-albert.kanze@vx.cit.alcatel.fr> wrote:
>     B   myB( A() ) ;
>
> According to the CD, this declares a function taking a pointer to an A
> and returning a B.

fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) replied (correctly):
> Don't you mean "this declares a function taking a (pointer to) a
> function [taking no arguments and returning an A] and returning a B"?

Fergus also suggested a solution to the question:
> > Given this, how does one go about defining a B
> > initialized with an explicitly constructed A?
>
> How about
>     B   myB( (0, A()) ) ;

My suggestion is to use a [outdated] feature of the language to
disambiguate the syntax:

    auto B   myB(A());

I can't help mentioning that if C++ required identifiers on function
parameter prototypes, this sort of ambiguity wouldn't exist.
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