[mschuster91]

It however is not "natural" for someone who doesn't know the obscure bits of history in a standard written many decades ago.

Someone writing, say, a static code analysis tool or an IDE may not assume that it is possible that in the expression `a[b]` a may be something else than a pointer / array.

[chrisseaton]

> Someone writing, say, a static code analysis tool or an IDE may not assume

If you're writing a static analysis tool or an IDE then I think it's fine to expect you to read the spec.

[Koshkin]

But pointer arithmetic is not "obscure bits of history."