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Subject: Rationale for 7.1.2/6
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7.1.2/6 says

"The explicit specifier shall be used only in declarations of constructors
within a class declaration; see
12.3.1."

Why?  In particular, it seems to me that it'd be useful to be able to apply
'explicit' to conversion operators (e.g. operator int()).

Is there some reason that explicit was so severely limited by definition?

-cd

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