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2024-12-19


264. Unusable template constructors and conversion functions

Section: 13.10.2  [temp.arg.explicit]     Status: open     Submitter: John Spicer     Date: 17 Nov 2000

The note in paragraph 5 of 13.10.2 [temp.arg.explicit] makes clear that explicit template arguments cannot be supplied in invocations of constructors and conversion functions because they are called without using a name. However, there is nothing in the current wording of the Standard that makes declaring a constructor or conversion operator that is unusable because of nondeduced parameters (i.e., that would need to be specified explicitly) ill-formed. It would be a service to the programmer to diagnose this useless construct as early as possible.