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I never would have guessed that the unreachable() function would get executed in that example. Probably not something you’d encounter in practice, though I have seen some weird things happen with layers of #ifdef

Breadcrumbs for "blog", "year", "month" etc are broken and give 404s :(

One can browse other blog entries so it really doesnt matter too much.

as an aside, i've always preferred the zoidberg for (;;) to while(true)

i have never before thought that a function could 'fall through' to another function. why does this behavior even exist?

Why is null-terminated C string considered a "billion dollar mistake", but UB isn't?

TLDR: For almost 1/6 of a century, the C++ standards broke the simplest infinite loop and only just recently fixed it.

Idiots!

Don’t they really that people write real programs to solve real problems? This isn’t a theoretical academic exercise!