Common V3 coding bug

[Nathan Myers]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:59:27PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> There are a bunch of places in the code where V3 does:
> 
>   template <class T> struct A { int i; };
>   template <class T> struct B : public A<T> {
>     void f() { i = 3; }
>   };
> 
> This isn't valid C++; there's no `i' in scope in `B'.  You have
> to add `using A<T>::i;' if you want to do this, or write `B<T>::i'.

The preferred fix is

>     void f() { this->i = 3; }

If A<>::i were a type, it could still be mentioned without template 
arguments, e.g.:

>     void g() { int j = sizeof B::i; } 

It would be nice if the compiler were to emit error messages the same way.

Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org