Updated slightly; C geekery

[robinbloke]

[Poll #777592]

Comments

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I chose the second due to the way C works

Indeed; C pointer syntax is not sensible.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The logic behind it is that declaration matches use. Arguably declarator syntax could be improved by making the dereferencing operator (for both declararation and use) postfix, so you never needed to worry about precedence in declarators. It'd have to be different from *, of course, but that needn't be a problem. @ might be a reasonable choice.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I still need to read up on this...