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@eernstg eernstg commented Sep 17, 2021

This PR adds an extra kind of potentially constant expression, namely a type variable (which is necessarily declared by the enclosing class).

It is needed for consistency, because this is a semantics that we can already express using different mechanisms:

typedef F<X> = X;

class A<Y> {
  Type type;
  const A(): type = F<Y>; // Might as well allow `type = Y`.
}

The PR also moves one more kind of constant to the section about constant expressions, such that this section contains every kind of constant / potentially constant expression in this document which is not derived directly from the corresponding constructor function.

The ones that are based on the corresponding constructor function remain where they are, because it would duplicate a lot of material to refer to the details of the declaration of said functions in the constant expression section. The commentary that creates the connection has been updated accordingly.

@eernstg eernstg force-pushed the spec_type_parameter_constant_sep21 branch from 63d2a6d to 8610bc1 Compare September 23, 2021 13:16
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@eernstg eernstg merged commit 8368661 into master Sep 23, 2021
@eernstg eernstg deleted the spec_type_parameter_constant_sep21 branch September 23, 2021 13:33
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