That did the trick! thank you very much. B-) On Saturday 12 February 2005 03:52 am, Michael Stevens wrote:
Brad,
On Friday 11 February 2005 21:03, Brad Bourn wrote:
I have a fuction that takes a vector as a parameter.
I want to be able to have a default value so I'm not required to pass anything if I don't need to.
I pass vectors by reference because of some things I need to do with it that pointers don't do.
anyway
I can define my function like this
func(vector<unsigned int> foo = vector<unsigned int>());
and everthing is fine, however if I define like this,
func(vector<unsigned int>& foo = vector<unsigned int>());
This is the same problem as you would get if you declared the function func(vector<unsigned int>& foo); and then called it with func(vector<unsigned int>())
This is an error because 'vector<unsigned int>()' is a temporary and you can only pass temporaries to 'const' reference parameters. Your function must be declared func(const vector<unsigned int>& foo); OR func(vector<unsigned int> foo); to work with temporaries.
I get
error: invalid type `std::vector
' for default argument to ` std::vector &' I am running SuSE 9.1 2.6.5-7.145-default
This syntax works with Borland 6 windoze (disclaimer: no, not mine, co-worker's)
Easy to explain. The ability to pass temporaries to non-const reference parameters has been disallowed for years in standard C++. It is incredibly dangerours. Some compilers support it despite this!
Michael
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