operator double() surprise in cxx

[Isaac To]

>>>>> "Benoît" == Benoît Dejean <bnetNOSPAM at ifrance.com> writes:

    Benoît> Le Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:35:51 -0500, John Hunter a écrit :
    >>  I am using pycxx 5.2.2 to generate some extension code.  I want to
    >> extract some doubles from some python sequences
    >> 
    >> When I do
    >> 
    >> double l( Py::Float(rect[0]) ); double b( Py::Float(rect[1]) );

    Benoît> everything that looks/tastes/sounds like a function declaration
    Benoît> is (even with parameters.

Is it really a bug in g++?  No matter how I look at

  Py::Float(rect[0])

it does not look like a type "Py::Float*" that is indicated by the error
message.  Perhaps it looks like a (Py::Float (*) (rect*)) if g++ think that
rect is a type instead of a variable, but does it really know some type
called rect, and if not, why no error about unknown type on the "function
declaration"?

Regards,
Isaac.