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I just came across this message some days ago. What's the reason for C++ refactoring being hard?

• acchow 13y ago
  I'm not a C++ programmer, but I'd imagine it having to do with turing-complete metaprogramming.
• pjmlp 13y ago
  The preprocessor, which means whatever the editor sees might have a complete different meaning. There are people that make all sorts of dirty tricks with the C and C++ preprocessor. C++'s grammar is not context free, so you really need a compiler frontend to make sure the refactored code isn't broken.
• EpicEng 13y ago
  (lack of) context free grammar.