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2024-11-11
[Moved to DR at the April, 2013 meeting.]
One of the bullets in 9.4.5 [dcl.init.list] paragraph 3 reads,
Otherwise, if T is a reference type, a prvalue temporary of the type referenced by T is list-initialized, and the reference is bound to that temporary.
This does not say whether the initialization of the temporary is direct-list-initialization, copy-list-initialization, or the same kind of list-initialization as the top-level initialization.
Proposed resolution (December, 2012):
Change 9.4.5 [dcl.init.list] paragraph 3 as follows:
...
Otherwise, if T is a reference type, a prvalue
temporary of the type referenced by T is
list-initialized copy-list-initialized or
direct-list-initialized, depending on the kind of initialization for
the reference, and the reference is bound to that
temporary. [Note: As usual...
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