What I read in the C++ standard about injected class names contradicts (as I see it) with the behavior of a sample program I will present shortly. Here\'s what I read:
I found it! It's right there in the standard! I was right! It should be ambiguous!
Clause 14.6.1 Paragraph
A lookup that finds an injected-class-name (10.2) can result in an ambiguity in certain cases (for example, if it is found in more than one base class). If all of the injected-class-names that are found refer to specializations of the same class template, and if the name is followed by a template-argument-list, the reference refers to the class template itself and not a specialization thereof, and is not ambiguous. [Example:
template struct Base { };
template struct Derived: Base, Base
{
typename Derived::Base b; // error: ambiguous typename
Derived::Base d; // OK
};
—end example]
Bottom line: This is yet another Microsoft compiler BUG. Disabling language extensions doesn't help either.