Wats wrong with this?

std::vector<std::set<unsigned long> > surroundings;
std::set<unsigned long> empty ();
X = std::vector<std::set<unsigned long> > (N,empty);

(where N is an ulong)

The compiler will treat this statement:

std::set<unsigned long> empty ();

as a function declaration. It will think that you are declaring a function that takes no parameters are returns a set of ulongs. To declare a default-constructed object, just use this:

std::set<unsigned long> empty;

And, btw, when you create a new vector and give it an initial size N, if you don't provide the second argument, it will be default-constructed. So, you don't even need the empty variable at all in this case, you would only need it if empty wasn't empty (i.e., default-constructed).

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