From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   Chris F Clark wrote:   
      
   > Now, perhaps in hindsight, you would know not to follows C++'s example   
   > in this particular case.  However, I think it proves that perfectly   
   > competent language designers can design unreasonable problematic   
   > features into their languages without knowing that they are doing so.   
      
   Unfortunately the C inventors noticed too late, that a LL grammar and a   
   recursive descent parser had prevented such mistakes. But one could   
   argue that this happened, before any of the involved persons became a   
   competent language designer ;-)   
      
   DoDi   
      
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