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An accident of syntax contributed to the perceived complexity of the language.
The indirection operator, spelled
*
in C, is syntactically a unary prefix operator, just as in BCPL and B
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Sethi [Sethi 81] observed that many of the nested declarations
and expressions would become simpler
if the indirection operator had been taken as a postfix operator
instead of prefix, but by then it was too late to change.
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