------- Additional Comments From sebor at roguewave dot com 2005-06-30 23:56 ------- I don't believe you are reading the paragraph correctly.
The paragraph applies to explicit instantiation. The reference to explicit specialization allows members of the class template that is being explicitly instantiated to be explicitly specialized prior to the explicit instantiation. This allowance is necessary since the opposite (i.e., specializing the member after the containing class template has been instantiated, explicitly or otherwise) is not permitted. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22263
