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From: berryc@arcturus.uucp (Craig D. Berry (x1710))
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Is this a bug?
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.181029.28684@arcturus.uucp>
Date: 25 Mar 91 18:10:29 GMT
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Organization: Rockwell International
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I have a class with a static member function:

class foo
{ ...
  public:
	static foo barfunc();	// Returns value of a foo object. 
  ...
}

Now, somewhere else, I try to use barfunc to initialize a foo:

  foo quux = foo::barfunc();

This doesn't work; the compiler wants a ( after foo::, for reasons
entirely mysterious to me.  Could be expecting one of foo's constructors,
I suppose...

However, 

  foo quux = (foo::barfunc());

works as intended; quux is created with the value returned by barfunc.
Am I missing something, or is my compiler (Turbo C++ 1.0) broken?