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2025-12-19
[Adopted as a DR at the November, 2019 meeting.]
According to 6.10 [basic.exec] paragraph 5,
A full-expression is
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an invocation of a destructor generated at the end of the lifetime of an object other than a temporary object (6.8.7 [class.temporary]), or
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This definition excludes the destruction of temporaries that are bound to references from being treated as full-expressions. It is not clear whether this omission has observable effects or not. See editorial issue 2664.
Proposed resolution (October, 2019):
Change 6.10 [basic.exec] bullet 5.5 as follows:
A full-expression is
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an invocation of a destructor generated at the end of the lifetime of an object other than a temporary object (6.8.7 [class.temporary]) whose lifetime has not been extended, or
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