[zygentoma]

Who the hell typeset this?

[wrs]

Communications of the ACM has had unbelievably bad typography for code samples for decades (predating the web). No idea how this is allowed to continue.

[rbanffy]

I'm guessing someone pasted from what went into the print edition. Or Bjarne himself.

It's just the first code snippet that's messed up. The rest is merely wonky.

[rgovostes]

You don't use 10 spaces of indentation? It's the 21st century.

[layer8]

It’s a wchar_tab.