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’.