Simple program won't compile

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 22, 2001, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz <braz@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Basically, I can't use iterators of containers that are
> arguments of template functions. Does anyone knows why?

Because template-dependent nested type names must be preceded by the
keyword `typename' in ISO C++:

> template <class Container> void foo (Container& c) {
>         Container::iterator i; // THIS IS THE PROBLEM.
       ^^ typename

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