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2024-12-19

1137. Explicitly-defaulted virtual special member functions

[Voted into the WP at the March, 2011 meeting.]

It should be allowed to explicitly default a virtual special member function on its first declaration. It is very likely that users will want to default virtual copy assignment operators and destructors without having to write such defaulting outside of the class.

Proposed resolution (November, 2010):

This issue is resolved by the resolution of issue 1135.