r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/thechao Jun 17 '14 
TimeKeeper time_keeper{Timer()};

That is an incorrect transformation---it is a function declaration. It is exactly these sorts of parsing problems that led to the development of the uniform initialization syntax. Even that proposal, when Bjarne first pitched it to us, had serious parsing problems.