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2024-12-19
[Adopted at the February, 2016 meeting.]
The type/nontype hiding rules (“struct stat hack”) do not apply in class scope. This is a C compatibility issue:
struct A {
struct B { int x; } b;
int B; // Permitted in C
};
Since the type/nontype hiding rules exist for C compatibility, should this example be supported?
Proposed resolution (September, 2015):
Change _N4868_.6.4.1 [basic.scope.declarative] paragraph 4 as follows:
Given a set of declarations in a single declarative region, each of which specifies the same unqualified name,
they shall all refer to the same entity, or all refer to functions and function templates; or
exactly one declaration shall declare a class name or enumeration name that is not a typedef name and the other declarations shall all refer to the same variable, non-static data member, or enumerator, or all refer to functions and function templates; in this case the class name or enumeration name is hidden (_N4868_.6.4.10 [basic.scope.hiding]). [Note: A namespace name or a class template name must be unique in its declarative region (9.8.3 [namespace.alias], Clause 13 [temp]). —end note]