Herb Sutter briefly discusses D during interview

[Sean Kelly]

I don't read the declaration right to left or left to right so much as inside out, ie. (int[4])[3]

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On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:

> 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