From 6734786896473399397 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:10:04 -0600 Return-Path: To: (Usenet) From: CornedBee Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why is std::array an aggregate? Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: cppmods@cs.rpi.edu Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com Message-ID: <0ac5f060-84b6-4b5a-a8a5-7c04dde1291c@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> References: <2fba9f88-3e5e-472f-a2fa-b7b415f07f69@g26g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Original-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:13:34 -0800 (PST) X-Submission-Address: std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:01:48 CST Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-q1OtR4EGRoEYCQs4kJN2vzueY3Qw+HkVteivj/ed+pJlSP6fgQtVtjRkaHjphVaB144Dgu50PVcupNe!9VI8P1pcT34/5OMl9w7Ux2fgbAjXYwv7rwx1JQzDDPq3Dh7p0ITeyALn88GuVP5KvGeBupMPjVTc!qIjEb2SRyF0mOuzn+39MH46FfkU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1953 On Dec 21, 5:02 am, Scott Meyers wrote: > > > - if an object with static or thread storage duration is initialized such > > that the initialization satisfies the requirements for the object being > > declared with constexpr (7.1.5). > > b isn't declared constexpr either, so it's not clear to me > that the second bullet applies, either, although the wording is rather > odd. If "the object" were changed to "an object," I'd probably > conclude that b can be statically initialized. I'm convinced that's the intent. You could reword this as "if an object ... is initialized such that you could add constexpr to the declarator and still have a valid initializer". The wording is odd and hard to understand, but not ambiguous. Sebastian -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]