> You could argue that Java (and C, and C++, and Javascript, and...) has the same "ambiguous parsing problem", then -- except that it doesn't The author didn’t

> You could argue that Java (and C, and C++, and Javascript, and...) has the same "ambiguous parsing problem", then -- except that it doesn't The author didn’t claim there’s any ambiguity in parsing, only ambiguity in reading as a human. And I would agree that all the languages you mentioned have the same problem. And this is a real problem as long as people use this form of if (which they do). New languages avoid this pitfall by mandating the use of braces, in return dropping the parens, and I think that’s great.