> If you want something new, then make a new language. Adding an optional new declaration syntax isn't a new feature, it is a change to the parser. C's declar

> If you want something new, then make a new language. Adding an optional new declaration syntax isn't a new feature, it is a change to the parser. C's declaration syntax is awful. In fact I'd go so far as to claim that one reason function pointers aren't heavily used in C as compared to modern C++, C#, JavaScript, etc, is purely because the syntax around them is so awful. (They obviously are used, but no one likes using them)