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2024-12-19

1144. Remove access declarations

[Voted into the WP at the November, 2010 meeting.]

Access declarations were deprecated in the 1998 standard and have no benefits over using-declarations. They should be removed in C++0x.

Proposed resolution (August, 2010):

1. Delete _N3225_.11.3 [class.access.dcl].

2. Delete _N3225_.D.3 [depr.access.dcl].

3. Delete the following production from the grammar in 11.4 [class.mem] paragraph 1:

member-declaration:
...
::_opt nested-name-specifier template_opt unqualified-id ;
...
4. Change 11.4 [class.mem] paragraph 1 as follows:

...Except when used to declare friends (11.4) or to introduce the name of a member of a base class into a derived class (7.3.3, 11.3), member-declarations declare members of the class...

5. Delete 9.9 [namespace.udecl] paragraph 19:

[Note: use of access-declarations (_N3225_.11.3 [class.access.dcl]) is deprecated; member using-declarations provide a better alternative. —end note]