On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 at 19:50, Sebastian Büttner via Std-Proposals
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> On 04.03.20 18:34, Barry Revzin wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 11:11 AM Sebastian Büttner via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> Sure! You can do this (you were missing the "auto" of the placeholder-type-specifier):
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>> void f(std::basic_string<any_of<char, uint8_t> auto> x);
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> This one is not valid in C++20, but hopefully will become valid in C++23 (although the auto would go outside the template - basic_string<Concept> auto)
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> Barry
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> Hi Barry,
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> why not? At least the grammar allows for it, is there any paragraph that disallows this (I admit I did only lookup the grammar, which often allows more than the actual language)?
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> type-id <- type-specifier-seq <- type-specifier <- simple-type-specifier <- placeholder-type-specifier <- type-constraint_opt auto

A simple-template-id's template-argument-list can't contain
placeholders. If the simple-type-specifier is a
placeholder-type-specifier,
it's either auto or decltype(auto). Things like vector<auto> don't get to play.