Why can't C++ be parsed with a LR(1) parser?

Question

I was reading about parsers and parser generators and found this statement in wikipedia\'s LR parsing -page:

Many programming languages can be parsed

Answer 1

I think you are pretty close to the answer.

LR(1) means that parsing from left to right needs only one token to look-ahead for the context, whereas LR(∞) means an infinite look-ahead. That is, the parser would have to know everything that was coming in order to figure out where it is now.