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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: type *var -- vs. -- type* var
Message-ID: <14554@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 8 Sep 89 19:52:10 GMT
References: <4201@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <4201@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> SMITHJ@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>I have been learning C++ from a book by Bjarne and he consistently declares
>pointers with `type* var;' rather than `type *var;'

They're syntactically identical; whitespace isn't significant between tokens.
It's just Bjarne's personal convention.  I also dislike it, for the reasons
you noted, and I wish he'd used the more conventional style.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint