It's quite clear to me[0]: The member access and subscript operators (. -> []) have the highest precedence, and the pointer dereference and address-of operators

It's quite clear to me[0]: The member access and subscript operators (. -> []) have the highest precedence, and the pointer dereference and address-of operators (* &) bind from right to left. And in any event if you left out the parentheses the compiler or IDE would likely catch your error. [0] As someone who likes coding in C/C++ for fun but has never for my day job.