I like C++, but one valuable thing I took from FQA was a concrete example of how absurdly difficult C++ is to parse. Everyone "knows" how hard it is to parse C

I like C++, but one valuable thing I took from FQA was a concrete example of how absurdly difficult C++ is to parse. Everyone "knows" how hard it is to parse C++, but this specific example was really eye-opening to me: it's a program which can have two completely different parse trees depending on the result of a sizeof() expression! http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/web-vs-c++.html#misfeature-3 http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/web-vs-c++.html#misfeature-3