Overcoming the "Most Vexing Parse" Problem
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"The C++ literature uses the phrase "most vexing parse" to
denote one of the dark syntactic alleys of C++. It's vexing because
programmers usually don't even know it exists; they assume that
their code creates an object initialized with a temporary, whereas
the compiler interprets that same code as no less than a function
declaration. This 10-Minute Solution explains where and why that
parse problem happens, and presents two simple techniques to avert
it.
"You define an object whose initializer is a temporary, but the
compiler unexpectedly interprets the code as a function
declaration.
"Rewrite your code so that it avoids the most vexing parse
problem."
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