[tsegers]

I'd argue @ is more suitable for a dereference operation than an "address of" one. It functions that way in an email address too.

[bsza]

Also, then "int @p" would read "integer at p" which is exactly what "int *p" means.

[frou_dh]

That's precisely what Clojure did, where @foo is syntactic sugar for (deref foo)

[amelius]

So address-of could be an "@" symbol, but upside down.

[anticensor]

Or a spanish question mark ¿.

[robertlagrant]

Ah yes - that's true.