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2025-03-08

2992. Labels do not have names

Section: 6.1  [basic.pre]     Status: open     Submitter: Vlad Serebrennikov     Date: 2025-02-20

(From submission #673.)

Subclause 6.1 [basic.pre] paragraph 3 specifies:

A name is an identifier (5.11 [lex.name]), conversion-function-id (11.4.8.3 [class.conv.fct]), operator-function-id (12.4 [over.oper]), or literal-operator-id (12.6 [over.literal]).

That seems to incorrectly include identifier labels per the grammar in 8.2 [stmt.label] paragraph 1 as well as attributes per the grammar in 9.12.1 [dcl.attr.grammar] paragraph 1.

Possible resolution:

Change in 6.1 [basic.pre] paragraph 3 as follows and add bullets:

A name is