[boost] Re: [assign] MinGW list_of() set<string> problem

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-30 04:37:25

"Daniel Schlyder" <daniel_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:288373781.20050330073356_at_bitblaze.com...
| The following used to compile:
|
| std::set<std::string> const virtual_control::s_unbindables_permanent
|    = boost::assign::list_of("Escape")("PrintScreen");
|
| I'm not sure why, as Boost.Assign's docs seem to say I should have had to
| use the to_adapter function. Anyway, I recently started getting the
| following error:
|
| E:/libs/boost/boost/assign/list_of.hpp: In member function
|   `boost::assign_detail::generic_list<char[7]>::operator set<string>() 
const'

hm..is this from a cvs snapshot? If so, please update.

| E:\code\cpp\dasc\wc2\lib\alex\src\virtual_control.cpp:413:   instantiated 
from
|    here
| E:/libs/boost/boost/assign/list_of.hpp:334: error: call of overloaded
|   `set(
|        const boost::assign_detail::converter<
|            boost::assign_detail::generic_list<const char *>
|        > &
|    )' is ambiguous
|
| After changing my code to
|
| std::set<std::string> const virtual_control::s_unbindables_permanent
|    = boost::assign::list_of("Escape")("PrintScreen").to_adapter();

what is the virtual_control::s__xxxxxxxxxx ? Why don't you write

const std::set<std::string> foo = ...:

| I now get the different error
|
| E:/libs/boost/boost/assign/list_of.hpp: In member function
|   `set<
|        string
|    > boost::assign_detail::converter<
|        boost::assign_detail::generic_list<const char *>
|    >::convert_to_adapter(const set<string> *) const':
| E:/libs/boost/boost/assign/list_of.hpp:200:   instantiated from
|   `boost::assign_detail::converter<
|        boost::assign_detail::generic_list<const char *>
|    >::adapter_converter::operator set<string>() const'
| E:\code\cpp\dasc\wc2\lib\alex\src\virtual_control.cpp:413:   instantiated 
from
|    here
| E:/libs/boost/boost/assign/list_of.hpp:179: error: 'class set<string>' has 
no
|    member named 'push'
|
| To me, this looks like an error in Boost.Assign. Am I doing something wrong?

hm...don't call to adapter unless you are dealing with an adapter (queue, 
priority_queue, stack).

Read about to_container() instead.

-Thorsten