> On Jun 20, 2026, at 10:46 PM, Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Saturday, 20 June 2026 13:13:33 Pacific Daylight Time Rhidian De Wit wrote:
>> PEMs have internal linkage by default and declaring extern functions in a
>> PEM would lead to a compiler error.
>
> No. They obey the exact same rules as regular member functions: none of them
> have internal linkage. As an optimisation exception under as-if, members of
> classes in unnamed namespaces can have internal linkage.
>
Well, we already have special rules for member functions that are defined inline. We could see PEMs the same way.