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2024-11-11

117. Timing of destruction of temporaries

Section: 6.7.7  [class.temporary]     Status: NAD     Submitter: Mike Miller     Date: 14 May 1999

6.7.7 [class.temporary] paragraph 4 seems self-contradictory:

the temporary that holds the result of the expression shall persist until the object's initialization is complete... the temporary is destroyed after it has been copied, before or when the initialization completes.
How can it be destroyed "before the initialization completes" if it is required to "persist until the object's initialization is complete?"

Rationale (04/00):

It was suggested that "before the initialization completes" refers to the case in which some part of the initialization terminates by throwing an exception. In that light, the apparent contradiction does not apply.