On: C/C++ Pointer Declaration Syntax – It makes sense

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I've always found it unsurprising that people find typedefs confusing. They're a storage specifier, which allows for some questionable constructs:

    int typedef x;
    typedef what;
    struct { int x; } typedef *x, y;
    enum { x } typedef;

Storage specifiers are pretty weird. This nonsense is allowed at function or parameter list scope, but not file scope:

    void f() { enum { x } register; }
    void f(enum { x } register);

I've never understood why Ritchie designed C's declaration syntax to have so many dumb edge cases.