OK, thanks. I was focusing on the "definition" part, rather than the "usage" part of the types. It never occurred to me to put variables names inside parens i

OK, thanks. I was focusing on the "definition" part, rather than the "usage" part of the types. It never occurred to me to put variables names inside parens in a declaration when I did C, though. But OF COURSE it's legal obfuscation. As stated elsewhere, I don't know why C had to screw up Algol's syntax so badly. I guess K&R liked curly braces much more than BEGIN/END, and why stop there, once you get going. Maybe somebody had a love affair with APL???