Question

To save some space in my code, I made this typedef:

typedef clients.members.at(selectedTab) currentMember;

however, g++ gives me this error:

error: expected initializer before '.' token

I figure that I’m misusing typedef, since clients.members.at(selectedTab) is a function call and not a type. Is there a way to do what I’m trying to do here?

Answer 1

If this is used function-local and neither clients.members nor selectedTab change between its uses, just use references. E.g.:

Member& currentMember = clients.members.at(selectedTab);
currentMember.foo();
currentMember.bar();