Yes, that's the philosophy around the declaration syntax. The declaration of the pointer ip, int *ip; is intended as a mnemonic; it says that the expressio

Yes, that's the philosophy around the declaration syntax. The declaration of the pointer ip, int *ip; is intended as a mnemonic; it says that the expression *ip is an int. The syntax of the declaration for a variable mimics the syntax of expressions in which the variable might appear. This reasoning applies to function declarations as well. K&R C