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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="1357"></A><H4>1357.
  
<I>brace-or-equal-initializer</I>s for function and typedef members
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<B>Section: </B>11.4&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.mem">class.mem</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>CD3
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Richard Smith
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 <B>Date: </B>2011-08-16<BR>


<P>[Voted into the WP at the February, 2012 meeting;
moved to DR at the October, 2012 meeting.]</P>



<P>The grammar allows a <I>brace-or-equal-initializer</I> for any
class member with a <I>member-declarator</I>, including typedef
members and member function declarations, and there is no semantic
restriction forbidding those forms, either.</P>

<P><B>Proposed resolution (August, 2011):</B></P>

<P>In 11.4 [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.mem">class.mem</A>], delete paragraph 4 and change paragraph
5 as follows:</P>

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<P><DEL>A member can be initialized using a constructor; see 11.4.5 [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.ctor">class.ctor</A>].  [<I>Note:</I> See 11.4.4 [<A href="https://wg21.link/special">special</A>] for a
description of constructors and other special member functions.
&#8212;<I>end note</I>]</DEL></P>

<P>A <DEL>member can be initialized using a</DEL>
<I>brace-or-equal-initializer</I> <INS>shall appear only in the
declaration of a data member</INS>.  (For static data members, see
11.4.9.3 [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.static.data">class.static.data</A>]; for non-static data members, see
11.9.3 [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.base.init">class.base.init</A>]).</P>

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