It seems like you have the concept down pat. I don't see what's wrong with it? Like lots of languages use positionally-dependent symbols. In both Perl and VB v

It seems like you have the concept down pat. I don't see what's wrong with it? Like lots of languages use positionally-dependent symbols. In both Perl and VB various characters in the variable name implied things about its type. With C/C++ the position of * tells you lots of important things. How is this anything less than yet another random language quirk?