error: 'cit' was not declared in this scope

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/30/2009 03:38 AM, Gerry Sweeney wrote:

> Thats perfect and solved my problem, thank you very much. I now have
> a better understanding of what the compiler is expecting.  The
> compiler could certinaly do with a more explicit error message in
> this scenario, perhaps something like:-
> 
>     test.cpp:30: error: The item base_type::const_iterator is not known as a  type 
> certainly would have helped

Sure, but gcc doesn't tell you that because gcc doesn't know because
the grammar is ambiguous.  This is really a bug in the language: its
grammar isn't context-free.

Andrew.