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Re: Defect Report: global scope qualified base class specifications

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Am 01.11.2011 19:15, schrieb David Krauss:
> On Oct 26, 10:20 am, David Blaikie<dblai...@gmail.com>   wrote:
>>   It seems to me, based on my reading of the FDIS, that there's been a
>>   small oversight and that the following example is technically invalid:
>>
>>   struct base { };
>>   struct derived : ::base { };
>>
>>   Given:
>>
>>   base-specifier:
>>       attribute-specifier-seq[opt] base-type-specifier
>>       ...
>>
>>   class-or-decltype:
>>       nested-name-specifier[opt] class-name
>>       decltype-specifier
>
> As of N3242 this was adjusted to
>     ::[opt] nested-name-specifier[opt] class-name

... but then came

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n3259.htm

which tried to solve a similar problem (CWG 355) but seemingly failed to
do that properly. "The intention was good, but..."

>>   I've checked through the current defect report lists&     nothing seemed
>>   to stand out as representing this issue. I hope the description/
>>   details are useful/correct/accurate.
>
> Indeed, there doesn't seem to be a DR covering this! I wonder if
> there's a paper trail for this correction. I don't have the FDIS on
> hand so I haven't verified that it was reverted.

I should have responded to the OPs message that I forwarded the problem
description to the core language group (Sometimes I forget to reply).

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler



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Defect Report: global scope qualified base class specifications David Blaikie<dblaikie@gmail.com> - 2011-10-26 11:20 -0700
  Re: Defect Report: global scope qualified base class specifications David Krauss<potswa@gmail.com> - 2011-11-01 11:15 -0700
    Re: Defect Report: global scope qualified base class specifications Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-02 11:19 -0700

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