Please explain a gcc weirdness

[Johannes Sixt]

Am 6/23/2010 22:59, schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Despite what you might think, when you wrote:
> 
> 	Nepomuk::Resource res( KUrl( uri ) );
> 
> you didn't declare an object of type Nepomuk::Resource called "res" and call 
> its constructor with a KUrl parameter.
> 
> You declared an external function (the "extern" keyword is optional) called 
> res that returns Nepmuk::Resource.
> 
> This is correct behaviour.
> 
> It's just one of those things that bite you once, then you remember forever.

It's called "most vexing parse", btw.

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