This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21 Core Issues List revision 115e. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official list.
2024-11-11
The Standard requires that a const static data member that is initialized in the class definition must still be defined in namespace scope if it is odr-used. This seems unnecessary.
Rationale (August, 2011):
This is a request for an extension.
Additional note, April, 2015:
EWG has decided not to make a change in this area. See EWG issue 100.