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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 14:00:24 GMT
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Christo Fogelberg wrote:

> In method void DataBase<T>::Search():
>     Error: parse error before '.'
>
> and, again in Search:
>     Error: cannot call member function 'TestData::Check(TestData &)' without
> object
>
> The specfic, reduced, code for each error is:
> void DataBase<T>::Search()
> {
>         // Parse error occurs in the following line at the period, adding
> angle
>         // brackets to the T indicates it occurs before the '<' however.
>         // This error occurs when the class is instantiated.
>         T.SearchFor();

    "T" is a type-name, not an object.  And since SearchFor is not a static
member function, then it requires a object to call it.

    Only Bill knows why M$VC++ compiles this.

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