context-free grammar

[Simon Buerger]

It is often said that D's grammar is easier to parse than C++, i.e. it 
should be possible to seperate syntactic and semantic analysis, which 
is not possible in C++ with the template-"< >" and so on. But I found 
following example:

The Line "a * b = c;" can be interpreted in two ways:
-> Declaration of variable b of type a*
-> (a*b) is itself a lvalue which is assigned to.

Current D (gdc 2.051) interprets it always in the first way and yields 
an error if the second is meant. The Workaround is simply to use 
parens like "(a*b)=c", so it's not a real issue. But at the same time, 
C++ (gcc 4.5) has no problem to distinguish it even without parens.

So, is the advertising as "context-free grammar" wrong?

- Krox