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
[Accepted at the November, 2020 meeting as part of paper P1787R6 and moved to DR at the February, 2021 meeting.]
According to 13.3 [temp.names] paragraph 4,
When the name of a member template specialization appears after . or -> in a postfix-expression or after a nested-name-specifier in a qualified-id, and the object expression of the postfix-expression is type-dependent or the nested-name-specifier in the qualified-id refers to a dependent type, but the name is not a member of the current instantiation (13.8.3.2 [temp.dep.type]), the member template name must be prefixed by the keyword template.
In other words, the template keyword is only required when forming a template-id. However, current compilers reject an example like:
template<typename T, template<typename> class U = T::X> struct A;
and require the template keyword before X. Should the rule be amended to require the template keyword in cases like this?