...would everyone hate me if I wrote a paper that allowed

T foo[2];
and
T[2] foo;

to mean the same thing as far as type declarations go in C?

This is not just because I feel like burning all my language designer and political capital for some extra syntax. That's dumb as shit.

I was working on a built-in span type for C, and this syntax consideration mattered to me. The "generalized" fix is for all declarators; the targeted fix, though, would be to just introduce trailing return types to C.

I've been looking for 2 years and i'm only asking publicly now because little me is scared of being shunned but here I am

“Gytha Ogg, you wouldn’t be a witch if you couldn’t jump to conclusions, right?”

Nanny nodded. “Oh, yes.” There was no shame in it. Sometimes there wasn’t time to do anything else but take a flying leap. Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump. Nanny herself could clear quite a tall conclusion from a standing start.

― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade