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- uncountableThe quality of being uncompilable.
No typo anymore: Spotted by you and fixed in early October after a report of uncompilability from Dave Mills. A spurious "y" out of comments.
2006 January 3, Serge Bets, “Crypto iffpar”, in comp.protocols.time.ntp (Usenet)2 more examples
Alexander Erdei reported this uncompilability to me earlier this month, and as the first to do so (that I saw) he's in the errata list now at […]
2001 September 2, Herb Sutter, “scope of pimpl”, in comp.lang.c++.moderated (Usenet)This might compile, but any attempt to instantiate A will result in infinite recursion. I should stress that it is *not* the infinite recursion or the uncompilability that is at the heart of the UML rule. The UML rule is simply that a part cannot be it's^([sic]) own whole.
2004 August 13, Robert C. Martin, “Principle, Patterns and Practices - Reflexive and Cyclic aggregation”, in comp.object (Usenet)
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uncompilability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncompilability
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