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Expand Up @@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ Certain forms of expressions, called constant expressions, can be evaluated at
compile time.

r[const-eval.const-expr.const-context]
In [const contexts](#const-context), these are the only allowed
expressions, and are always evaluated at compile time.
Expressions in a [const context] must be constant expressions.

r[const-eval.const-expr.evaluation]
Expressions in const contexts are always evaluated at compile time.

r[const-eval.const-expr.runtime-context]
In other places, such as [let statements], constant expressions *may* be, but are not guaranteed to be, evaluated at compile time.
Outside of const contexts, constant expressions *may* be, but are not guaranteed to be, evaluated at compile time.

r[const-eval.const-expr.error]
Behaviors such as out of bounds [array indexing] or [overflow] are compiler errors if the value
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