Question

I have a functor like this,

class PrintParentheses
{
public:
    PrintParentheses(unsigned pairsCount)
    {}

    void operator ()() {}
};

Inside main() I am using it like,

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
  unsigned pairsCount = 0;

  // Error:  ‘PrintParentheses pairsCount()’ redeclared as different kind of symbol
  PrintParentheses(pairsCount)();

  PrintParentheses(5)(); // But this works

}

Error positions are marked inside the code itself. I have tested both GCC-4.6 and clang-3.1. Both are giving the same error.

Answer 1

That’s being read as pairsCount is a function taking no arguments and returning PrintParentheses. Due to what is known as the Most Vexing Parse, this must be treated as a function declaration. Instead, create an object and use it:

PrintParentheses obj(pairsCount);
obj();