This reasoning seems to me similar to how declaring a pointer in e.g. C works: many beginners write
int* a, b;
And think that this constructs two pointers-to-integer. In fact, it constructs one pointer and one plain integer. A better (equivalent) way to write it is
int *a, b;
You're not declaring variables of type
int*
You're saying that b is an int and
*a
Is an int, where the asterisk means "the dereferenced a"!
Beginners and also C++ programmers, expert and beginner alike. Even though it’s just as misleading in C++. This:
int a = 0;
int& x = a, y = a;
declares x to be a reference, but y an independent variable. Similarly, a template parametrised by a variadic pack of function pointers is declared thus:
template <void (*...x)(void)>
It’s a good thing I don’t work in C++ too often, because my forehead would have probably sustained noticeable injury from all the facepalming each time I see ‘int& x’ instead of ‘int &x’ and ‘typename... T’ instead of ‘typename ...T’.
