I know there is a good chance I'm missing somthing (being the newbie and all - thanks Phill); however, under the heading

Declaration Syntax in http://www.digitalmars.com/d/declaration.html
It quite clearly says that the declaations are left to right:
Declaration syntax generally reads left to right:
	int x;		// x is an int
	int* x;		// x is a pointer to int
	int** x;	// x is a pointer to a pointer to int
	int[] x;	// x is an array of ints
	int*[] x;	// x is an array of pointers to ints
	int[]* x;	// x is a pointer to an array of ints
	And yet every comment is reading the declaration right to left(same for the
next section in the doco)???

Youch! You're right, I'll fix it.