[CLN-list] Overriding read_number_bad_syntax on OS X

[Ron Garret]

On May 17, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:

> Ron Garret wrote:
>> Like a charm, except for one thing.  This code snippet:
>> class out_of_range {};
>> extern out_of_range range_exception;
>> now results in this error (referring to the second line):
>> error: 'out_of_range' does not name a type
>> This used to work, and if I rename out_of_range to Out_of_range  
>> then  it works again.  So it appears that you made some change to  
>> the  include file that makes this break, but I can't for the life  
>> of me  figure out what it might be since nothing even remotely  
>> resembling  the string "out_of_range" appears anywhere in cln/*.h.
>
>
> Well, std::out_of_range is an exception type pulled in from the  
> <stdexcept> header via include/cln/number_io.h.
>

Ah, that would explain it.  But why would it say that out_of_range is  
not a type rather than complain that it is being redefined?  (Feel  
free to treat that as a rhetorical question.)

rg