Could anybody tell me what this error means exactly? I can't find it in the documentation on the site.

Regards, Remko van der Vossen.

Ah, I found the error, apparently I left an empty set of parenthesis, where there had been a variable initialization. But is it really false C++ to have an empty set of parenthesis in a variable declaration?

Also, I still don't get what the error is trying to tell me, and why is it not included in the on-line documentation?

Regards, Remko van der Vossen

"Wichetael" <wichetael@gmx.net> wrote in message news:c2q22g$2tnt$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Could anybody tell me what this error means exactly? I can't find it in
the
> documentation on the site.
>
> Regards, Remko van der Vossen.
>
>

Hello,

Wichetael wrote...
> Ah, I found the error, apparently I left an empty set of parenthesis, where there had been a variable initialization. But is it really false C++ to have an empty set of parenthesis in a variable declaration?

if you have

  struct XYZ {
      XYZ() {}
      ~XYZ() {}
  };

and write a variable definition as

  XYZ variable();  // parenthesis here!

then the compiler will not interpret this as a variable definition but
as a function declaration (variable is a function taking no arguments
and returning a XYZ).
To define a variable the parenthesis must be taken away.


- Heinz

Of course, doh...

Thanks anyway,

Remko van der Vossen.

"Heinz Saathoff" <hsaat@bre.ipnet.de> wrote in message news:MPG.1abbc008a9fc1a5f9896da@news.digitalmars.com...
> Hello,
>
> Wichetael wrote...
> > Ah, I found the error, apparently I left an empty set of parenthesis,
where
> > there had been a variable initialization. But is it really false C++ to
have
> > an empty set of parenthesis in a variable declaration?
>
> if you have
>
>   struct XYZ {
>       XYZ() {}
>       ~XYZ() {}
>   };
>
> and write a variable definition as
>
>   XYZ variable();  // parenthesis here!
>
> then the compiler will not interpret this as a variable definition but
> as a function declaration (variable is a function taking no arguments
> and returning a XYZ).
> To define a variable the parenthesis must be taken away.
>
>
> - Heinz