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<P><EM>This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21
  Core Issues List revision 118b.
  See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official
  list.</EM></P>
<P>2025-09-28</P>
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<A NAME="1253"></A><H4>1253.
  
Generic non-template members
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<B>Section: </B>13.9&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/temp.spec">temp.spec</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>C++17
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Nikolay Ivchenkov
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 <B>Date: </B>2011-03-06<BR>


<P>[Resolved by P0391R0 (Introducing the term "templated entity"), adopted at the June, 2016 meeting.]</P>



<P>Many statements in the Standard apply only to templates, for example,
13.8 [<A href="https://wg21.link/temp.res#8">temp.res</A>] paragraph 8:</P>

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If no valid specialization can be generated for a template definition,
and that template is not instantiated, the template definition is
ill-formed, no diagnostic required.

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<P>This clearly should apply to non-template member functions of class
templates, not just to templates per se.  Terminology should be established
to refer to these generic entities that are not actually templates.</P>

<P><B>Additional notes (August, 2012):</B></P>

<P>Among the generic entities that should be covered by such a term
are default function arguments, as they can be instantiated independently.
If <A HREF="1330.html">issue 1330</A> is resolved as expected,
<I>exception-specification</I>s should also be covered by the same term.
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<P>See also issues <A HREF="1484.html">1484</A> and
<A HREF="1626.html">1626</A>.</P>

<P><B>CWG 2022-11-11</B></P>

<P>With the introduction of the family of terms "templated entity",
this has mostly been addressed.  The remaining open issue is the
timing details of the parsing of the complete-class contexts. </P>

<P><B>CWG 2024-06-26</B></P>

<P>Parsing of the complete-class contexts is not the topic of this
issue.</P>

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