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[temp.param] Remove definitions in footnote and fix wording referring to non-type template parameters #3917

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11 changes: 5 additions & 6 deletions source/templates.tex
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\tcode{typename}
followed by a
\grammarterm{qualified-id}
denotes the type in a non-type%
denotes the type in a \grammarterm{parameter-declaration}.%
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We now have a footnote explaining what we mean by "non-type" attached to wording that doesn't say "non-type". That doesn't seem ideal. But in any case the disambiguation rule for template<class T> seems like a very strange place to be defining "non-type".

\footnote{Since template
\grammarterm{template-parameter}{s}
and template
\grammarterm{template-argument}{s}
are treated as types for descriptive purposes, the terms
\term{non-type parameter}
and
\term{non-type argument}
are used to refer to non-type, non-template parameters and arguments.}
\grammarterm{parameter-declaration}.
non-type \grammarterm{template-parameter} and
non-type \grammarterm{template-argument}
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I actually think those definitions should be normative and indexed; they are used quite a lot and we shouldn't rely on the "since" rationale offered here for readers to understand a fairly basic term.

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Should we do non-type template-parameter like we do for trailing requires-clause, or non-type template parameter? The former seems to be used more often than the latter.

are used to refer to non-type, non-template \grammarterm{template-parameter}{s}
and \grammarterm{template-argument}{s}.}
A \grammarterm{template-parameter} of the form
\tcode{class} \grammarterm{identifier} is a \grammarterm{type-parameter}.
\begin{example}
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