Exactly: C++ (or Scala, to pick a JVM example) is a complicated language. There are a lot of rules, and they interact in subtle ways, and therefore that's a rea

Exactly: C++ (or Scala, to pick a JVM example) is a complicated language. There are a lot of rules, and they interact in subtle ways, and therefore that's a real opportunity for spooky action-at-a-distance stuff. For better or worse, Java has much simpler semantics.