English Explanatory Dictionary

most vexing parse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

most vexing parse

Etymology

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

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