Kernighan & Ritchie :p The rest of your post is perfect and objectively (subjectively) correct. While I fortunately knew that `int* x, y` means `y` is not a p

Kernighan & Ritchie :p The rest of your post is perfect and objectively (subjectively) correct. While I fortunately knew that `int* x, y` means `y` is not a pointer, I always assumed it was some kind of capricious oversight of the compiler. I had no idea the rationale was "the expression `*x` declares `x` to be a pointer to the type west of it". That strikes me as so weird! XD