Re: Linkage of namespace scope reference
"Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
* johnchx2@yahoo.com:
The extern keyword doesn't change whether a definition requires an
initializer;
True, because a reference definition always requires an initializer.
it only changes whether a declaration without an
initializer is also an (ill-formed) definition.
Typo? Sorry, I can't parse that.
Yeah...it makes my eyes cross too. But it says what I mean. For
instance:
T& t;
is a well-formed declaration AND an ill-formed definition. But:
extern T& t;
is a well-formed declaration that is NOT a definition.
So the presence or absence of extern only affects whether the
well-formed declaration is also an ill-formed definition.
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