Re: strange error "changes meaning ..."

[jk]

> The above fails with the same error message with g++ 2.95, 3.3,
> 3.3.2, 3.4.3 and '4.0.0 20040919 (experimental)'.
>
> Surprisingly, it succeeds with gcc-3.4.0.
[...]

> The solution is trivial: replace
>
>     Consumer::Consumer Consumer;
>
> with
>
>     Consumer::Consumer consumer;    // or
>     Consumer::Consumer consumer_;   // or
>     Consumer::Consumer theConsumer; // or
>
> Note, that one of the widely-accepted naming conventions is to use
> types that begin with a capital letter and variables that do not.
> Naming both variables and types the same is certainly confusing,
> and generally considered a bad style (TM).
thanks, this helps quite a bit ... it is strange that some compilers 
accept it some do not ...

Anyway, I will wait for the next C++-error :) here
Jörg

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