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by jxy 757 days ago
It's fun stuff of translating C declarations to English, given English uses its special order for possessive and verb object order. If you use Japanese, you can write the Japanese from left to write in order, while reading the C declarations from outside in.

    char *(*(**foo [][8])())[]
then reads as

charへのポインタの配列へのポインタを返す関数へのポインタへのポインタの8要素からなる配列の未定サイズの配列

which uses the reverse of English possessive, and object verb order.