From: thurston@complang.org   
      
   Hi, I covered some of the difficulties in this paper:   
      
   http://www.complang.org/thurston/thurston_CASCON_06_btlr.pdf   
      
   -Adrian   
      
   ng2010 wrote:   
   > What elements of C++ make it so hard to parse? Is it a weakness of   
   > compiler designs rather than a weakness of the language design? I've read   
   > somewhere that the language requires potentially infinite look ahead.   
   > Why? And how do compilers handle it?   
   > [It's ambiguous syntax.  Others can doubtless fill in the details. -John]   
      
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