Which is such a baroque rule that it's probably not even a rule: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5079787

Go's declaration syntax is one of the best things about the language. I thought it would take me forever to get used to, but within a day it was the opposite: C feels backwards. It's especially excellent for references to functions.

Right, it may be a tiny bit better but it's still not easy to read. The only way to make it actually readable is with typedefs.

Cool site: http://cdecl.org/