Re: Defect report: [lex.key] and [lex.operators] contradict each
other
<james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
[lex.key] and [lex.operators] give contradictory information as
to the status of new and delete: in [lex.key], they are
keywords, but in [lex.operators], they are listed as
preprocessing-op-or-punc. This affects the legality of programs
such as:
#define new 0
int
main()
{
return new ;
}
If new is a keyword, the above is a legal C++ program; if new is
a preprocessing-op-or-punc, it is not.
It has just crossed my mind that the problem may have arisen because new
and delete in C++ have two distinct meanings. We have them as operators
where they are user replaceable and overloadable. We also have them as
non-operators where they are neither replaceable nor overloadable.
int main(){
void * memory = operator new(1000);
mytype* = new mytype;
}
It is worth noting that many of the suggested preprocessor substitutions
seem to assume that the programmer only uses the second case.
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