Herb Sutter briefly discusses D during interview

[Timon Gehr]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> ...
> No, people don't normally look at declarations such as
>
> int* a;
>
> as being right to left. But from the compiler's perspective, they are. The
>
> compiler doesn't look at the type of a as being an int pointer. It looks at it
> as being a pointer to an int. The * comes first and then the int.
> [snip.]

It is more convenient for the compiler to read the declaration left to right to
construct the type. (just like for people)


Timon