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most vexing parse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English

Syllables
most vex-ing -parse
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Questions

What does most vexing parse mean?
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.
Where does most vexing parse come from?
The phrase was introduced by Scott Meyers in Effective STL (2001).

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