3107. istreambuf_iterator has public exposition-only member

Section: 24.6.4 [istreambuf.iterator] Status: New Submitter: Billy O'Neal III Opened: 2018-04-26 Last modified: 2020-09-06

Priority: 4

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Discussion:

LWG has said recently that we don't want public exposition-only things, as that may encourage users to try to use those names (and some implementers to actually use those names).

[2018-06-18 after reflector discussion]

Priority set to 4

Proposed resolution:

This wording is relative to N4741.

1. Edit 24.6.4 [istreambuf.iterator] as indicated:

   namespace std {
     template<class charT, class traits = char_traits<charT>>
     class istreambuf_iterator {
     public:
       […]
       using istream_type = basic_istream<charT,traits>;
     
       class proxy; // exposition only
     
       constexpr istreambuf_iterator() noexcept;
       […]
     private:
       class proxy; // exposition only
       streambuf_type* sbuf_; // exposition only
     };
     […]
   }