After spending some time in a language with left-to-right declarations, going back to spiral declarations makes you realise just how many contortions your brain

After spending some time in a language with left-to-right declarations, going back to spiral declarations makes you realise just how many contortions your brain has to constantly go through. left-to-right is a breath of fresh air. Edit: Of course I must add that it is a breath of rather old fresh air - Pascal and SML have had it for decades.