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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="2016"></A><H4>2016.
  
Confusing wording in description of conversion function
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<B>Section: </B>11.4.8.3&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.conv.fct">class.conv.fct</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>CD4
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Daniel Kr&#252;gler
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 <B>Date: </B>2014-10-05<BR>


<P>[Moved to DR at the October, 2015 meeting.]</P>

<P>The statement in 11.4.8.2 [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.conv.ctor#1">class.conv.ctor</A>] paragraph 1,</P>

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No return type can be specified.

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<P>is confusing, since a conversion operator has a return type.  It
would be more precise to phrase the restriction in terms of the
permissible <I>decl-specifier</I>s in the function's
<I>decl-specifier-seq</I>.  The next sentence is also problematic,</P>

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If a conversion function is a member function, the
type of the conversion function (9.3.4.6 [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.fct">dcl.fct</A>])
is &#8220;function taking no parameter
returning <I>conversion-type-id</I>&#8221;.

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<P>as it implies that a conversion function might not be a member
function.</P>

<P><B>Proposed resolution (May, 2015):</B></P>

<P>This issue is resolved by the resolution of
<A HREF="1990.html">issue 1990</A>.</P>

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