Comment by the_why_of_y

One aspect of this that you might be overlooking is that the syntax for function pointers has to follow the syntax of function declarations.

Why should a new language inflict this horror on its users:

let i32 (*foobar)(i32, i32) = add;

When it can do this instead:

let foobar: fn(i32, i32) -> i32 = add;