Which is why the sane way to do it is to have the array-specifier come before the element type: [,][]int crazy; It reads "2-dimensional array of array of in

Which is why the sane way to do it is to have the array-specifier come before the element type: [,][]int crazy; It reads "2-dimensional array of array of int" in L-to-R order. Similarly, the type "pointer-to-int" should be "*p" or equivalent. Unfortunately, history/tradition as well parsing problems make the "sane" solution difficult. One solution is the Pascal approach putting the type after the variable being declared, with a colon between: crazy : [,][]int;