Within a local context (where corner cases can be excluded) large parts of C/C++ can be simplified. Expand to a general context, I think too it is a fallacy. Ev

Within a local context (where corner cases can be excluded) large parts of C/C++ can be simplified. Expand to a general context, I think too it is a fallacy. Even when in theory the compile time can determine all the types and ambiguity, including all the corner cases makes learning the language very complicated. However, as a preprocessor, it does not need to work beyond local context as C/C++ is still there to deal with general corner cases.