History of C

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

>>Sethi [Sethi 81] observed that many of the nested declarations and expressions would become simpler if the indirection operator had been taken as a postfix operator instead of prefix, but by then it was too late to change.<

Nested pointer declarations aren't a problem with the D function
pointer declaration syntax.