Seems overly complex. The way I learned it, and now teach, is to read the type backwards (int const * is 'pointer to const int') for const correctness, but any

Seems overly complex. The way I learned it, and now teach, is to read the type backwards (int const * is 'pointer to const int') for const correctness, but anything that requires more complex parsing by a human should just be typedef'd into submission.