It's cryptic because it is a reduced test case to show off a bug. 99.9% of code doesn't look like this. Just because "int ((foo)(void ))[3]" is a valid C decla

It's cryptic because it is a reduced test case to show off a bug. 99.9% of code doesn't look like this. Just because "int ((foo)(void ))[3]" is a valid C declaration doesn't mean that all of C code looks like that.