On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 20:17, Jason Merrill <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/3/23 10:45, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > We have a long history of INVALID bugs about std functions being
> > available in the global namespace (PRs 27846, 67566, 82619, 99865,
> > 110602, 111553, probably others). Let's document it.
> >
> > Also de-prioritize the C++98-only bugs, which are unlikely to affect
> > anybody nowadays.
> >
> > OK for wwwdocs?
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> Jason
After pushing it I realised the formatting looks bad compared to the
other items in the list, so I've pushed the attached follow-up as
obvious.
commit 1b1a0cf29826ce9287a203cde00fd1512918fc17
Author: Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Oct 5 10:09:54 2023 +0100
Add <p> to new item in C++ non-bugs list
diff --git a/htdocs/bugs/index.html b/htdocs/bugs/index.html
index 41edc561..da3d4c0d 100644
--- a/htdocs/bugs/index.html
+++ b/htdocs/bugs/index.html
@@ -541,12 +541,14 @@ for details.
<dl>
<dt>Functions can be called without qualifying them with their namespace.</dt>
<dd>
+<p>
Argument Dependent Lookup (ADL) means that functions can be found in namespaces
associated with their arguments. This means that <code>move(arg)</code> can
call <code>std::move</code> if <code>arg</code> is a type defined in namespace
<code>std</code>, such as <code>std::string</code> or <code>std::vector</code>.
If <code>std::move</code> is not the function you intended to call, use a
qualified name such as <code>::move(arg)</code> or <code>foo::move(arg)</code>.
+</p>
</dd>
<dt>Nested classes can access private members and types of the containing
