Kind of.

A pointer to type A is:

     var B: ^A

The parser knows it is a declaration because of the var, and it knows ^A is the type, because of the colon. That it is a caret does not really matter here

Yeah, now only if Pascal had used curly braces, all could be right in the world :-)

I don't know about Pascal, but AT&T allowed anyone to write a C compiler without needing a license. (C++, too, I know because I asked AT&T's lawyers.)

Arh.... But then it wouldn't be Pascal ><

Yes! As he said - all would be right with the world =)

It was more about AT&T monopoly I believe :)