https://mostvexingparse.com/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Most Vexing Parse Hugo en-US Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:10:17 -0400 https://mostvexingparse.com/posts/intro/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:10:17 -0400 https://mostvexingparse.com/posts/intro/ <p>The title of this site refers to a phrase coined by Scott Meyers. The most vexing parse is a result of the ambiguity of function declarations and variable definitions in C++, but I also think it&rsquo;s a fun sequence of words.</p> <p>You&rsquo;ve probably run into this while trying to define a variable with a call to a default constructor. That happens pretty frequently, so get in the habit of of doing so correctly: by omitting the empty parentheses, as in <code>string str</code> rather than <code>string str()</code>. This is necessary because the latter is ambiguous:</p>