Static data members in template declarations

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov  2, 1998, Mark Mitchell <mark@markmitchell.com> wrote:

> Concretely, consider this:

> const int a = 7;
> template<class T> struct S : public T { int j [S<T>::a]; int k [a]; };
> struct U { static const int a = 3; };

> Now, in `S<U>', `S<U>::a' is 3 while `a' is 7.

But this is completely different from the previous example.  In that
example, a was declared within the template class, so it couldn't
possibly be bound to names outside the template class body.

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