More rtti queries

[Nathan Sidwell]

Jim Dehnert wrote:
> 
> More feedback from the meeting:
> Concern  remains that we may need to deal with pointers to ref
> members.
[dcl.mptr] (8.3.3)/3
	'A pointer to member shall not point to ... a member with
	reference type'
Wouldn't such a thing be a language extension, could this be documented?

> I have fixed the spelling.  Someone at the meeting claims that the
> standard uses `pointer to member' to mean both `pointer to member data'
> and `pointer to member function'.
Yes, they are correct. [dcl.mptr]/2 gives such an example, which I'd
missed. I'd got misled by [basic.compound]/3 which talks about (non-member)
pointers to object.

thanks for the clarifications

nathan

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