most vexing parse

noun

Etymology

The phrase was introduced by Scott Meyers in Effective STL (2001).

Definitions

  1. A specific form of syntactic ambiguity resolution in the C++ programming language,…

    A specific form of syntactic ambiguity resolution in the C++ programming language, whereby attempts to declare a variable may be undesirably interpreted as attempts to declare a function.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for most vexing parse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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