Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

[basic.types.general] Talk about "program points", not "certain contexts"

Open Beginner friendly
#8,253 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start at basic.types.general paragraph 5, linked in the issue, and review the surrounding terminology for program points introduced by C++26 Reflection. Update the editorial wording as appropriate, then build or render the draft to verify the section formatting and references.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

P3-Other

Especially after https://cplusplus.github.io/CWG/issues/3065.html, we use the wishy-washy language "in certain contexts" in https://eel.is/c++draft/basic.types.general#5:

A class type in certain contexts, an enumeration type in certain contexts ([dcl.enum]), or an array of unknown bound or of incomplete element type, is an incompletely-defined object type. [...]

It would be better to say "at certain program points" now that we have proper language to express this (I believe program points were recently introduced with C++26 Reflection).

I've floated the idea during yesterday's CWG telecon and it sounded like this may be doable editorially.

Dominant language
TeX
Stars
221
Forks
813
Avg merge
17h 45m
Merged PRs (30d)
34

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from cplusplus/draft

All issues in cplusplus/draft

Similar issues

More Documentation issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.