The full title, "The cover of C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover" was too long for HN, apparently.

Stock photo pipelines are wild, someone tagged this "code on screen" and it ended up on a C++ book cover. Same energy as every "hacker" stock photo showing htlm

What’s wrong with

  #define var auto
  #define function void

? ;-)

It follows tradition (https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd...)

Also, some compilers will accept 'foto' + i, interpreting 'foto' as a hex constant 0x666F746F.

Similarly, 'bigImage' may be interpreted as a 64-bit literal.