D aliases vs. C typedefs

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 20:33:03 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I think they are actually legal: This is D's support of C-style 
> array declaration acting the same in alias declaration:
>
> Ali

C-style array declaration has got to be one of C's *worst* 
abominations. There's no real *technical* rationale for it either.

I am ***INCREDIBLY*** glad D's stance is simply "depth first left 
to right". It *supports* C style, but unless you are copy pasting 
some C code, you'd have to be mad in your head to actually ever 
use it.

Honestly, try to declare:
*A two element array of pointers to int
*A pointer to a two element array of ints

Tip: the solutions are in this set:
int *arr1[2];
int (*arr2)[2];
int *(arr3[2]);

Also, the syntax is *so* horrible, the syntax is actually 
deprecated in D. And that's saying a lot, when you know how much 
Walter hates breaking code...