The paragraph says (in the latest draft, n2857)

> It is implementation-de   ned whether the dynamic initialization (8.5, 9.4, 12.1, 12.6.1) of an object of name-space scope with static storage duration is done before the    rst statement of main.

referring to 9.4[class.static]. This seems to also include objects of
class-scope, but the wording says it only happens to objects of name-
space scope. I propose to change it to the following, if the rule was
intended to also apply to static data members

> It is implementation-de   ned whether the dynamic initialization (8.5, 9.4, 12.1, 12.6.1) of an object defined in name-space scope with static storage duration is done before the    rst statement of main.


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