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2025-12-20
[Voted into WP at April 2003 meeting.]
The wording in 6.8.4 [basic.life] paragraph 6 allows anlvalue designating an out-of-lifetime object to be used as theoperand of astatic_cast only if the conversion isultimately to "char&" or "unsigned char&".This description excludes the possibility of using a cv-qualifiedversion of these types for no apparent reason.
Notes on 04/01 meeting:
The wording should be changed to allow cv-qualified chartypes.
Proposed resolution (04/01):
In 6.8.4 [basic.life] paragraph 6 change the third bullet: