> I don't have anything better to offer though - C pointers make a whole lot possible in a very terse way. Terseness isn't a virtue in and of itself. If tersen

> I don't have anything better to offer though - C pointers make a whole lot possible in a very terse way. Terseness isn't a virtue in and of itself. If terseness helps readability that's great, but unreadable terse code isn't something to aim for. One of the redeeming aspects of the C pointer declaration syntax is that hairy declarations can be decomposed using typedefs. Improving readability at the cost of reduced density is a good trade.