Templates and nested classes/structures

Question

I have a simple container :

template  list {
    public:
        struct node {
            nodeType info;
            node* next;
              


        

Answer 1

You need to tell the compiler that node is a type using the keyword typename.Otherwise it will think node as a static variable in class list. Add typename whenever you use node as a type in your implementation of list.

Answer 2

that's because node is a dependent type. You need to write the signature as follows (note that I have broken it into 2 lines for clarity)

template <class nodeType> 
typename list<nodeType>::node* list<nodeType>::_search() 
{
    //function
}

Note the use of the typename keyword.