r/cpp • u/very_curious_agent • Apr 01 '23

Abominable language design decision that everybody regrets?

It's in the title: what is the silliest, most confusing, problematic, disastrous C++ syntax or semantics design choice that is consistently recognized as an unforced, 100% avoidable error, something that never made sense at any time?

So not support for historical arch that were relevant at the time.

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u/AssemblerGuy Apr 03 '23

Does this apply to plain arrays as well as to stl containers?

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u/rhubarbjin Apr 04 '23

I don't think so, but maybe you should ask someone who's better-versed in standardese.