Implicit Typename Deprecated?

[pmatos]

Hi all,

I'm starting to use templates and I just got a weird error which I was
able to simplify into this code:
#include <vector>

using std::vector;

template<class T>
class foo {
public:
void setval(vector<T>::const_iterator itBegin,
vector<T>::const_iterator itEnd) { }
};

I get by g++:
$ g++ -Wall -std=c++98 -c temptest.cc
temptest.cc:8: warning: `std::vector<T, std::allocator<_CharT>

::const_iterator' is implicitly a typename temptest.cc:8: warning: implicit typename is deprecated, please see the

documentation for details
temptest.cc:8: warning: `std::vector<T, std::allocator<_CharT>::const_iterator' is implicitly a typename

temptest.cc:8: warning: implicit typename is deprecated, please see the

documentation for details
Can someone please explain me what's happening?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* pmatos:

I'm starting to use templates and I just got a weird error which I was
able to simplify into this code:
#include <vector>

using std::vector;

template<class T>
class foo {
public:
void setval(vector<T>::const_iterator itBegin,
vector<T>::const_iterator itEnd) { }
};

The compiler doesn't know for sure that vector<T>::const_iterator is type,
because that depends on the T (as far as the compiler knows).

To tell the compiler, use

void setval( typename vector<T>::const_iterator itBegin
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