From: niklas.wernersson@googlemail.com   
      
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   Hi,   
      
   I have a strange problem with templates in c++. I need to access a   
   singleton with template methods inside another templated class. The   
   problem is isolated in the following piece of code, which doesn’t   
   compile. For example, in gcc 4.7.3 you will get   
      
     ‘test.cpp:15:23: error: expected primary-expression before 'int'’,   
      
   which did not help me to identify the root of the problem. It will   
   compile if I remove any of the two templates, but I want both   
   templates. The code will also compile if I remove the bar() function   
   and replace it with ‘a’ directly. My problem is that I cannot see why   
   the bar() function is a problem here.   
      
   Any ideas? What exactly is the problem in the example below?   
      
   class A {   
   public:   
      template   
      T get() { return 0; }   
   };   
      
   static A a;   
      
   template   
   class B {   
   public:   
      static A& bar() { return a; }   
      
      static int foo() {   
        int x = bar().get(); // This doesn’t compile.   
          // Replace with ‘int x = a.get();’ will do the trick.   
        return x;   
      }   
   };   
      
      
   int   
   main(int argc, char * argv[]) {   
      B::foo();   
      return 0;   
   }   
      
      
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