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2024-04-05


2323. Expunge POD

Section: 6.8  [basic.types]     Status: C++20     Submitter: US     Date: 2017-02-27

[Adopted at the October, 2017 meeting as paper P0767R1.]

P0488R0 comment US 101

The term POD no longer serves a purpose in the standard, it is merely defined, and restrictions apply for when a few other types preserve this vestigial property. The is_pod trait should be deprecated, moving the definition of a POD type alongside the trait in Annex Clause Annex D [depr], and any remaining wording referring to POD should be struck, or revised to clearly state intent (usually triviality) without mentioning PODs.