help with a MESSY C definition!!?

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <950 at vsi.COM> friedl at vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>In article <1506 at buengc.BU.EDU>, bph at buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>> Now, prove that 
>> 
>> 	(int *(*)())
>> 
>> is unambiguously "cast to pointer to function returning pointer
>> to int" and never misinterpreted as "cast to function returning pointer
>> to pointer to int," whatever the hell that means...
>
>Casts are "abstract declarations".  This means that if you drop the
>outer parens, there is exactly one place where a variable name (say,
>`foo') could be inserted to make this a real declaration.  Above,
>the only place would be:
>
>	int *(*foo)()
>
>So, this is "cast to ptr to function returning ptr to int".

But is there anything illegal about

	int *(*)foo()

and would those "extra" parentheses change the precedence of that *
declarator at all, viz

	double *barz[]  /* declare barz as array of ptr to double */
	
	double (*)barz[]  /* declare barz as ptr to array of double.
			     Or does it? */

				--Blair