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### 2431. Missing regular expression traits requirements

Section: 32.2 [re.req] Status: New Submitter: Jonathan Wakely Opened: 2014-09-30 Last modified: 2020-04-16

Priority: 3

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Discussion:

The requirements on the traits class in 32.2 [re.req] do not say whether a regular expression traits class is required to be `DefaultConstructible`, `CopyConstructible`, `CopyAssignable` etc.

The `std::regex_traits` class appears to be all of the above, but can `basic_regex` assume that for user-defined traits classes?

Should the following statements all leave `u` in equivalent states?

>     X u{v};
>     X u; u = v;
>     X u; u.imbue(v.getloc();

Whether they are equivalent has implications for `basic_regex` copy construction and assignment.

[2020-04-16, Jonathan adds that 32.7.5 [re.regex.locale] requires the traits type to be default-initialized, despite no guarantee that the traits type is default constructible. ]

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