[tealpod]

> asterisk is inexplicably used both to declare a pointer and a COMPLETELY different operation of dereferencing a pointer.

This is the most confusing concept of pointers. I feel this could have been easily avoided with different character like ~ or ^ or other.

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Why? In C all the declarations work like that:

    float * (*foo(int *)) (int);

foo is something, that can be called with an 'int *', which results in a pointer to something that can be called with an 'int', which results in something which can be dereferenced, which is a float.