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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: New Begginer Questions.
Message-ID: <9884@alice.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 12:16:39 GMT
References: <4202@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <4202@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, SMITHJ@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:

> 1. Is the declaration type* var; common in C++ programs as opposed to type *var
>    and if so why.  I find that it misleads one to beleave that the declaration
> 			type* x, y;
>    would be interpreted as
> 			type *x, *y;
>    rather than the correct
> 			type *x, y;

If you use the style

	type* x;
	
then it would be wise to declare only one variable at a time.
The particular choice of layout is, as usual, a matter of
(sometimes hotly debated) personal preference.  So are indentation
and other such things.

> 2. Why the addition of the typecast convention type(var) when (type)var 
>    already exists. 

So that you can write, for example, Complex(3,4) to mean 3+4i.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com