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How to Read Complex C Declarations with the Spiral Rule

This article from Hacker News explains the Clockwise/Spiral Rule, a technique for parsing complex C declarations. By reading tokens in a clockwise spiral pattern, programmers can correctly interpret pointers, arrays, and function pointers. It's a useful mental tool for anyone working with C or C++ code.

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