On Sun, Jul 24, 2016, at 18:13, BartC wrote: > (They don't need to be elaborate to start being confusing. Take 'int > *a[]' and 'int (*a)[]'; one of these is an array of pointers, the other > a pointer to an array. Quite different! But which is which?
int (*a)[]; === int x[]; where x is (*a). To work out the other one you need to know operator precedence, but you need to know operator precedence to understand a _lot_ of things. C type _casts_ are slightly harder, since you have to work out where the identifier belongs in a token sequence that has had it removed. But it's usually not hard [look for the sequence "*)", which is otherwise illegal and appears in most complicated type casts]. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
