Perhaps I should've prefaced that with "for the sake of argument, let's assume...". I think you're right. But even if we're wrong, and modern C++ is bulletproof

Perhaps I should've prefaced that with "for the sake of argument, let's assume...". I think you're right. But even if we're wrong, and modern C++ is bulletproof, that doesn't matter because very little code is written with those idioms.