It sounds like you are not familiar with the most vexing parse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse

It sounds like you are not familiar with the most vexing parse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse , https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14077608/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-most-vexing-parse https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14077608/what-is-the-pur... Also pointer/multiplication ambiguity: https://medium.com/@bartobri/exploring-the-ambiguous-nature-of-the-sizeof-operator-45b6dd2b8b67 https://medium.com/@bartobri/exploring-the-ambiguous-nature-... , https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/124570/why-pointer-symbol-and-multiplication-sign-are-same-in-c-c https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1245... , https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41331871/how-c-c-parser-lexer-makes-the-difference-between-of-pointer-and-of-mu https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41331871/how-c-c-parser-...