Overloaded static member function call inside lambda body doesn't compile

Question

So basically here is the simplified version of my code that doesn't compile:

class MyClass
{
    static void foo(X)
    {
        //do something
    }
    
    static void foo(Y)
    {
        //do something
    }
    
    static void bar()
    {
        std::for_each(collection->begin(), collection->end(),
          [&](X& elem)
        {
          foo(elem); //this call generates the error
        });
    }   
};

Compiler: MSVC 2010 with SP1 installed The error message it generates is: error C3861: 'foo': identifier not found

The error doesn't occur if I rename either foo() function, or if I call it outside the lambda.

Update:

I managed to solve this by explicitly qualifying foo(). The interesting part is that ::MyClass::foo(elem) works but MyClass::foo(elem) does not.

Answer 1

Try to explicitly qualify foo:

MyClass::foo(elem);

(which might be a required work-around for a MSVC10 bug, GCC accepts your code without qualification)