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2024-10-26

2099. Inferring the bound of an array static data member

[Adopted at the February, 2016 meeting.]

According to 9.3.4.5 [dcl.array] paragraph 3,

An array bound may also be omitted when the declarator is followed by an initializer (9.4 [dcl.init]). In this case the bound is calculated from the number of initial elements...

However, the grammar for member-declarator uses brace-or-equal-initializer, not initializer, so the following is ill-formed:

  struct X {
    static constexpr int arr[] = { 1, 2, 3 };
  };

Proposed resolution (October, 2015):

Change 9.3.4.5 [dcl.array] paragraph 3 as follows:

...An array bound may also be omitted when the declarator is followed by an initializer (9.4 [dcl.init]) or when a declarator for a static data member is followed by a brace-or-equal-initializer (11.4 [class.mem]). In this case both cases the bound is calculated from the number of initial elements...