I assumed that arbitrary levels of indirection would be flattened, hence a loop. I'm not asking for this feature, I'm only arguing that C was never explicit to

I assumed that arbitrary levels of indirection would be flattened, hence a loop. I'm not asking for this feature, I'm only arguing that C was never explicit to begin with. For example, you cannot tell how many indirections happen in a[5][2][8] either. Every game programmer must have seen a newbie try to cast a[4][4] into a :)