Agree 100%. It is a tradeoff that detracts from ease of human interpretation. Because C makes that tradeoff, int *a; is idiomatic C and int* a; isn't.

Agree 100%. It is a tradeoff that detracts from ease of human interpretation. Because C makes that tradeoff, int *a; is idiomatic C and int* a; isn't. For C programming to be pleasant, you have to understand and agree with the philosophy at least while you're writing C. Go developers changed this in a particularly elegant way. Here's what Rob Pike has to say: https://blog.golang.org/declaration-syntax https://blog.golang.org/declaration-syntax. I too gained a better understanding of the problem after going through a compiler-writing exercise.