------- Comment #5 from pcarlini at suse dot de 2008-01-02 16:01 ------- I think Johannes' analysis is completely right. And, e.g., "STL Tutorial and Reference Guide", 20.6, or "The C++ Programming Language", 19, evidently also agrees with that reading of the standard.
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