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- <p>A <a class="reference internal" href="./trivial-metafunction.html">Trivial Metafunction</a> accepts a single argument of a class type <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> and
- returns the <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt>'s nested type member <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x::name</span></tt>, where <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">name</span></tt> is
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- <p>In the following table and subsequent specifications, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">name</span></tt> is placeholder token for the names of
- the <a class="reference internal" href="./trivial-metafunction.html">Trivial Metafunction</a> itself and the accessed member, and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> is
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