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probably not relevant to real world C++ unless you work on libc++, libstdc++, or your name is either Louis Dionne or Eric Niebler.

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I updated MSVC's STL to handle these things, and it wasn't nearly as obnoxious as I feared. Almost all of the complexity was centralized.

The article suggests that the discussed behavior is a problem because it does show up in code that "regular users" have to look at:

> This paper tries to shed some light in the dark corners, and explores whether the language can be cleaned up so that good template documentation does not drag obscure language-lawyer details into the domain of the regular user.

As far as I can tell from a cursory read, this will affect developers that want to write very thorough generic code (think boost, STL).

For regular people it's a non-concern. I'd be happy to be corrected if I misinterpreted something :)

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