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2024-12-19

1217. Are deleted functions implicitly noexcept?

Section: 9.5.3  [dcl.fct.def.delete]     Status: NAD     Submitter: Daniel Krügler     Date: 2010-11-10

It would seem intuitively that a deleted function cannot throw an exception, but 9.5.3 [dcl.fct.def.delete] does not mention that. This could conceivably be useful in SFINAE contexts.

Rationale (November, 2010):

Any reference to a deleted function is ill-formed, so it doesn't really matter whether they are noexcept or not.