The bigger mistake was to mix a prefix pointer operator in with the postfix [i] ...

abecedarius on Oct 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Lang...

The bigger mistake was to mix a prefix pointer operator in with the postfix [i] and (x). You end up with the spiraling-out parsing even for expressions, not just declarations. With Pascal's postfix ^ everything reads left to right.