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2024-12-19

1996. Reference list-initialization ignores conversion functions

Section: 9.4.5  [dcl.init.list]     Status: drafting     Submitter: Richard Smith     Date: 2014-09-04

The specification for list-initialization of a reference does not consider the existence of conversion functions. Consequently, the following example is ill-formed:

  struct S { operator struct D &(); } s;
  D &d{s};