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    What would the example you provided look like in the new form? Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 23:57
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    Are you certain that this is the answer? or is it one of many possible reasons that it uses such an approach? Commented Mar 4, 2016 at 1:24
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    This is true for C, and the circumfix type syntax has largely been recognized to be a mistake. However, other languages imitate C or Algol and put the type before the variable name without this insane circumfix syntax, e.g. Java or C#, or even C++ without the C subset. None of these have problems with higher-order functions, e.g. modern C++ might write std::function<int(std::function<int(int x, int y)> ff, int b)> fp which has none of the ambiguities you mentioned. Commented Mar 4, 2016 at 10:04
  • The C++ syntax you showed is doing something entirely different. To improve the C pointer syntax you use typedef or using in C++. Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 15:32
  • I can scan down the left side of the page and easily find my function names. -This alone should be reason enough to go with postfix languages Commented Feb 3, 2022 at 1:02