From: rosing@peakfive.com   
      
   This is more of a language question than a compiler question (and   
   therefore should create a religious battle :) ), but I'm wondering if   
   the answer has more to do with the compiler. Anyway, why are there   
   prefix operators that could just as well be postfix? Why is it !a and   
   not a!, or *a and not a* ? I can understand the increment and   
   decrement operators, and the & op but expressions like *a[i] would be   
   a lot clearer if it were a[i]*, just read the operators from right to   
   left. Is it a case of, well, it's always been done this way?   
      
   [We've always done it that way. -John]   
      
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