The actual result of name resolution in the class template is different from the c++ 03 standard

Question

I test the code in the c++ standard ISO/IEC 14882-03 14.6.1/9 on Xcode 4.1 and Visual Studio 2008. The outputs of the two compiler are both different from the expected result of

Answer 1

What you're running into is the fact that Visual Studio does not implement two-phase lookup. They only look up the actual name when you instantiate the template.

And Microsoft has pretty much decided at this point that they're not interested in supporting two-phase lookup.