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Let's take the bull by the horns and discuss this until the cows come home.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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List the distinct uses for a colon in C++.
Motivated by currently writing a function that had better take all of them into account! 
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Now why would I be hesitating to click on that link?
EDIT: Curiosity killed the cat. But it could have been worse!
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Greg Utas wrote: Now why would I be hesitating to click on that link?
Answer I'd have given:
Hesitant? Perhaps not enough roughage?
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I was going to say, "to write VB code because only ... " but he beat me too it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Isn't it just another separator?
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It's the brits fault, they colonized even C++.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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A colon is the hat that most Q&A questioners wear.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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static member access, constructor initialization list. Base class list, namespace access, ternary operator, case signifier terminator.
I feel like there are more but I'm sleepy.
edit: other commenters pointed out labels and bitfields
Don't forget to escape strings and chars!
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also bitfield definitions
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Thanks. I knew i was forgetting something!
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goto the head of the class!
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i forgot labels.
So now that's two things i forgot
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global scope operator, as in ::foo
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I presumed that was implied when i mentioned the namespace scope resolution operator (it's the same operator) 
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In a ternary oparator
sResult=(x<=0)?"0 or negative":"positive";
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i already mentioned that.
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is that a C++20 thing?
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huh. I've never actually used that..
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Some of those are double colons. Are we counting them as well?
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i did, because of the way the original question was worded.
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To keep my gastroenterologist in BMW's?
Oh wait, wrong colon; my bad.
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