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[dcl.meaning.general] Clarify correspondence for block-scope friends #5149

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Otherwise, the terminal name of $E$ is not looked up.
The declaration's target scope is the innermost enclosing namespace scope;
if the declaration is contained by a block scope,
the declaration shall correspond to a declaration
the declaration shall correspond to a reachable\iref{module.reach} declaration
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Or just use English "an earlier", since we can't need to look into other translation units as for "precedes" or "reachable".

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Uh, but "earlier" also has a temporal meaning, which we don't want here.

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There is no time to apply here (although my initial mistake was more or less supposing that there was).

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Exactly, and that's why I don't want "earlier", which has a temporal aspect. In contrast, "reachable" has positional meaning (only), not temporal.

that inhabits the innermost block scope.
\end{itemize}

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