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2024-04-05

719. Specifications for operator-function-id that should also apply to literal-operator-id

Section: 6.1  [basic.pre]     Status: CD2     Submitter: Daveed Vandevoorde     Date: 19 September, 2008

[Voted into WP at October, 2009 meeting.]

When user-defined literals were added, a new form of operator function was created. Presumably many of the existing specifications that deal with operator-function-ids (the definition of name, for instance, in paragraph 4 of 6.1 [basic.pre]) should also apply to literal-operator-ids.

Proposed resolution (June, 2009):

  1. Change 6.1 [basic.pre] paragraph 4 as follows:

    2. A name is a use of an identifier (5.10 [lex.name]), operator-function-id (12.4 [over.oper]), literal-operator-id (12.6 [over.literal]), conversion-function-id (11.4.8.3 [class.conv.fct]), or template-id (13.3 [temp.names]) that denotes an entity or label (8.7.6 [stmt.goto], 8.2 [stmt.label]).

  2. Change _N4567_.5.1.1 [expr.prim.general] paragraph 3 as follows:

    3. The operator :: followed by an identifier, a qualified-id, or an operator-function-id, or a literal-operator-id is a primary-expression. Its type is specified by the declaration of the identifier, qualified-id, or operator-function-id, or literal-operator-id. The result is the entity denoted by the identifier, qualified-id, or operator-function-id, or literal-operator-id. The result is an lvalue if the entity is a function or variable. The identifier, qualified-id, or operator-function-id, or literal-operator-id shall have global namespace scope or be visible in global scope because of a using-directive (9.8.4 [namespace.udir])...

  3. Add the following production to the grammar for qualified-id in _N4567_.5.1.1 [expr.prim.general] paragraph 7:

  4. Add the following production to the grammar for template-id in 13.3 [temp.names] paragraph 1:

  5. Change 13.3 [temp.names] paragraph 3 as follows:

    6. After name lookup (6.5 [basic.lookup]) finds that a name is a template-name, or that an operator-function-id or a literal-operator-id refers to a set of overloaded functions any member of which is a function template...

  6. Change 13.6 [temp.type] bullet 1.1 as follows: