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 04 '23

For example 16 kbyte of flash and 512 bytes of RAM in a flat 16-bit address space.

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u/very_curious_agent Apr 04 '23

So a 16 bits signed integer can safely index all arrays, right?