From: "John Harrison" <jahhaj AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: passing istringstream as istream in param
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"Mostyn Lee" <mostyn AT ibc DOT com DOT au DOT SPAM> wrote in message
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> thanks john, but i think you misunderstand my problem, which is not with
the
> generated code, merely with the interface to that code.  I cant get my
> character string in the form of istream * for the lexer to do its parse.
>

Well I'm pretty sure that somewhere you are mixing up <iostream.h> which
defines a class called istream and  <iostream> which defines a different
class called std::basic_istream<T, char_traits<T>> and a typedef
std::istream.

After all you said that trying to declare an istream results in an ambiguous
symbol error, and your error message indicates that you have a class called
istream (which can only happen if you are including <iostream.h>) somewhere
in your program.

Basically there is nothing wrong with the code you have posted and the only
explaination I can think of is that you have included both the <iostream>
and <iostream.h> headers somewhere. The confusing thing is that they both
define a symbol called istream.

john