Hi,

My full code is too long, but here is a snippet that will reflect the essence of my problem:

class BPCFGParser {
  public:

  ...
  ...

  class Edge {
    ...
    ...
  };


  class ActiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };

  class PassiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };

  struct EqActiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };

  struct EqPassiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };



  unordered_map<ActiveEquivClass, Edge *, hash<ActiveEquivClass>, EqActiveEquivClass> discovered_active_edges;
  unordered_map<PassiveEquivClass, Edge *, hash<PassiveEquivClass>, EqPassiveEquivClass> discovered_passive_edges;

};

namespace std {


template <>
class hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>
{

    public:
        size_t operator()(const BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass & aec) const {

        }
};

template <>
class hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>
{

    public:
        size_t operator()(const BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass & pec) const {

        }
};

}

When I compile this code, I get the following errors:

In file included from BPCFGParser.cpp:3,
                 from experiments.cpp:2:
BPCFGParser.h:408: error: specialization of ‘std::hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>’     after instantiation
BPCFGParser.h:408: error: redefinition of ‘class                 std::hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>’
/usr/include/c++/4.3/tr1_impl/functional_hash.h:44: error: previous definition of     ‘class std::hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>’
BPCFGParser.h:445: error: specialization of     ‘std::hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>’ after instantiation
BPCFGParser.h:445: error: redefinition of ‘class std::hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>’
/usr/include/c++/4.3/tr1_impl/functional_hash.h:44: error: previous definition of     ‘class std::hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>’

Now I have to specialize std::hash for these classes (because standard std::hash definition does not include user defined types). When I move these template specializations before the definition of class BPCFGParser, I get a variety of errors for a variety of different things tried, and somewhere (http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/misc-technical-issues.html) I read that:

Whenever you use a class as a template parameter, the declaration of that class must be complete and not simply forward declared.

So I'm stuck. I cannot specialize the templates after BPCFGParser definition, I cannot specialize them before BPCFGParser definition, how may I get this working?

Thanks in advance,
Onur