this is not just a preference but a practical matter, esp. for reading nd checking other People's code. did you solve the puzzle at the end with high confidence?
You mean `foo = *bar[10]`? That’s equivalent to `bar[10][0][0]`, i.e. the array element access is done first, then the retrieved element is dereferenced twice. I’m quite confident in this, but I’m a systems programmer working in C++, so that’s my bread and butter.
when a value is dereferenced, having a consistent left to right dereferencing makes sense.
for example, in c, without looking up the order of operations how confident are you that you know what is going on in the following:
foo = **bar[10]