Just reading this:

https://www.bfilipek.com/2018/04/refactoring-with-c17-stdoptional.html

about C++17, and what did I see? An example with a semicolon in parentheses!

Isn't that kind of the C++ motto? "Leave no syntactic stone unturned." Whereas in Python, the syntax motto might better be stated, "We will ship no syntax before its time." (With apologies to Ernest and Julio Gallo.)

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