Rule 6.7.2 variable templates

[gdavis]

Is the following considered to be compliant:

Code:

template <typename T>
T var = 42;

By itself it seems not to be in the spirit of the rule since there's no "const" in the declaration.  But what if the only instantiation is something like:

Code:

int foo() { return var<const int>; }

Thank you.