Sorry -- I edited my reply above; the quoted sentence should be "the declaration on the _left_ makes a certain amount of sense". > You say it as if it's the on

Sorry -- I edited my reply above; the quoted sentence should be "the declaration on the _left_ makes a certain amount of sense". > You say it as if it's the only sensible way to design a declaration syntax I don't say that -- in fact, I'm replying to my own post saying that the declaration on the left was a mistake. My only point is that it is a design decision that has some historical grounding.