Document number:P0283R2
Date: 2016-06-22
Audience: Core Working Group
J. Daniel Garcia (josedaniel.garcia@uc3m.es)
Standard and non-standard attributes
Context
This paper provides wording for proposal P0283.
For rationale and background information, please, refer to P0283R1 [1].
Proposed Wording Changes
Modify paragraph 7.6.1/3:
In an attribute-list, an ellipsis may appear only if that attribute's specification permits it. An attribute
followed by an ellipsis is a pack expansion (14.5.3). An attribute-specifier that contains no attributes has no
effect. The order in which the attribute-tokens appear in an attribute-list is not significant. If a keyword (2.11)
or an alternative token (2.5) that satisfies the syntactic requirements of an identifier (2.10) is contained
in an attribute-token, it is considered an identifier. No name lookup (3.4) is performed on any of the
identifiers contained in an attribute-token. The attribute-token determines additional requirements on the
attribute-argument-clause (if any). The use of an attribute-scoped-token is conditionally-supported, with
implementation-defined behavior. [ Note: Each implementation should choose a distinctive name for the
attribute-namespace in an attribute-scoped-token. — end note]
Modify paragraph 7.6.1/5:
For an attribute-token not specified in this International Standard, the behavior is implementation-defined.
.
Acknowledgements
The work from J. Daniel Garcia has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n. 609666.
Thanks to Jens Maurer for reviewing and suggestions of the wording.
Thanks to Chandler Carruth for pointing out initial ideas. Thanks to Bjarne
Stroustrup, Michael Wong, Richard Smith, and Daveed Vandevoorde for useful
feedback prior to the writing of this paper.
References
[1] J. Daniel Garcia.
Standard and non-standard attributes.
Technical Proposal P0283R1, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21, March 2016.