C++0X explicitly defaulted copy constructors

From:
Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:49:27 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID:
<iamni7$qo$1@news-rocq.inria.fr>
See below for the code. A variadic argument U&&... matches a
copy-from-lvalue better than the implicit copy constructors, so I need
to declare a copy constructor from lvalue. And since its existence
prevents the implicit declaration of the other two versions (from const
ref and from rvalue), I need to declare those 2 as well. Now I don't
want anything fancy for those and I am fine with whatever the compiler
can generate by default, so I default the three copy/move constructors.

Now, according to g++, I am only allowed to specify "=default" inside
the class for 2 of them, for the one that takes an lvalue reference I
can only do it outside the class (though I can add "inline" if I like),
otherwise I get:

error: ???A::A(A&)??? declared to take non-const reference cannot be
defaulted in the class body

Now I am quite confused as to why that is...

#include <iostream>
struct A {
        A()=default;
        template<class...U> A(U&&...){
                std::cout << "NOOOOO!\n";
        }
        A(A&);
        A(A const&)=default;
        A(A &&)=default;
};
A::A(A&)=default;
int main(){
        A a;
        std::cout << "---\n";
        A b{a};
        std::cout << "---\n";
        A c{(A&)a}; // same as the previous one
        std::cout << "---\n";
        A d{(A const&)a};
        std::cout << "---\n";
        A e{(A&&)a};
}

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