Hi,

I'd appreciate if anyone can clear this issue up for me...

3.4.1/10 describes how for friend declarations naming member
functions, a name used in the function declarator is first looked up
in the scope of the member function's class.

3.4.3/3 describes how when the declarator-id is a qualified-id names
following the qualified-id are looked up in the scope of the member's
class or namespace.

I think therefore, that the following is illformed:

namespace NS
{
  void foo (int);
}

class R
{
  typedef int I
  friend void NS::foo (I);
};

As NS is not a class, then 3.4.1/10 does not apply, and 3.4.3/3 is
used to lookup I, and as there is no I in NS the code is illformed.

So my question is, why do we only consider member functions when
applying 3.4.1/10?

Thanks for any help,

Richard

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