It's not just nontrivial for C++, you need a full template engine just to properly parse it [1]. Same thing for languages with a lisp-like macro system. Or lang

It's not just nontrivial for C++, you need a full template engine just to properly parse it [1]. Same thing for languages with a lisp-like macro system. Or languages that allow dynamic redefinition od symbols [2]. [1] http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-undecidable.html http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-u... [2] https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393 https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393