I think you may be right, &int would be better than int*. I did not want to stray too far from what C does now, for the sake of argument. I just wanted to say

I think you may be right, &int would be better than int*. I did not want to stray too far from what C does now, for the sake of argument. I just wanted to say that the ambiguity in C is often because it's so loosey-goosey with whitespace.