Chacham's Journal: Nonsense: C++ standard limerick

Rhymes show up in strange places, like the (Penn.) State Supreme Court opinion. Well, the C++ standard (page 279, penultimate paragraph, ultimate sentence) has the following limerick:

When writing a specialization, be careful about its location; or to make it compile will be such a trial as to kindle its self-immolation.

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No one else

[Philip K Dickhead]

ever read that far into the document before you!

Congratulations.

I have to say this...

[johndiii]

I, for one, welcome our poetic overlords. (Really)

Sorry.

Still don't have a copy.

[Short Circuit]

I still don't have a copy, though I've wanted one. I found a cheap distributor in ANSI, but the EULA for it is incredibly restrictive. Under a strict enough reading, you can't even put the damned thing on a flash drive.

I also liked...

[Bill Dog]

...the rest of that paragraph (that precedes your quoted sentence), when I discovered the rest of the paragraph was actually all one sentence!

The placement of explicit specialization declarations for function templates, class templates, member functions of class templates, static data members of class templates, member classes of class templates, member class templates of class templates, member function templates of class templates, member functions of member templates of class templates, member functions

Re:

[Chacham]

Heh, when i showed it to a friend this morning, he made the same comment. :)