Well, Meyer doesn't let any chance to bash C/C++ go unused :) But a good syntax should minimize the chance that an accidental insertion/transposition/deletion o

Well, Meyer doesn't let any chance to bash C/C++ go unused :) But a good syntax should minimize the chance that an accidental insertion/transposition/deletion of a character/word/line results in a valid program. [A dramatic example of bad syntax comes from a FORTRAN, where a loop between the current line and the line with label 10 looks like this: DO 10 I=1,100 and this code: DO 10 I=1.100 declares a variable named "DO10I". Hopefully your compiler will warn that label 10 is unused.]