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by saagarjha 2086 days ago
Uh, no? Just parsing the language is undecidable, there's problems with "vexing parses" and strange overloads, there's like twenty seven ways to initialize things, there's new syntax every release to do something that has already existed in the language…
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Exactly. The Most Vexing Parse is so popular it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse