The "reverse spiral rule" is a myth and that website should be shut down. It only adds confusion for the already confused. C type syntax has a simple guiding p

The "reverse spiral rule" is a myth and that website should be shut down. It only adds confusion for the already confused. C type syntax has a simple guiding principle, there is no type syntax and "declaration follows usage" i.e. normal expression syntax. A few ugly additions that don't cleanly fit in this model were made later for practical reasons, but they don't change the basic idea, which is that there is so little to C type syntax that you can barely see it (which may also be why it's so easy to read once you've grokked it).