And if they hadn't, people would be confused about whether something's supposed to be a pointer or an array. I think I like the current syntax much better.
True. But it really could have been anything suffix, including probably *, and it would have still resolved that ambiguity.
>And if they hadn't, people would be confused about whether something's supposed to be a pointer or an array.
Not that they aren' confused between pointers and arrays now.