[Voted into WP at April 2003 meeting.]

Notes from the 4/02 meeting:

This is resolved by the proposed changes for issue 323.

The syntax for "export" permits it only on template declarations. Clause 13 [temp] paragraph 6 further restricts "export" to appear only on namespace scope declarations. This means that you can't export a member template of a non-template class, as in:

  class A {
    template <class T> void f(T);
  };

  export template <class T> void A<T>::f(T){}

There is also the issue of whether or not we should permit this usage:

  export struct A {
    template <class T> void f(T);
  };

If we eliminate the requirement that "export" precede "template" there is a similar issue regarding this case, which is currently prohibited:

  template <class T> struct B {
    export void f();
  };