most vexing parse

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Etymology[edit]

The phrase was introduced by Scott Meyers in Effective STL (2001).

Noun[edit]

most vexing parse

  1. (programming) A specific form of syntactic ambiguity resolution in the C++ programming language, whereby attempts to declare a variable may be undesirably interpreted as attempts to declare a function.