At 18.17 2012.09.29, you wrote:
>This is an opinion question. I am curious as to what you all think is a
>good way to do this:
>
>In C/C++, what is your preferred way or declaring pointers?
>
>A) int*    p;
>B) int    *p;
>C) int  *  p;
>
>I think it should be A because it's logical and the C/C++ compiler
>considersint*to be the type, and the syntax is<type> <identifier>;
>
>However, I see B a lot in code, and it doesn't make sense to me. Also,
>function prototypes are usually written like so:
>
>void myFunction(int*, int*, char*); with the asterisk close to the type.
>
>Note that when doing this:
>
>int* x, y;
>
>Type type of x is int* whereas the type of y is int. To make the type of
>both of them int*, one must do:
>
>int *x, *y;
>
>Apparently, the spaces get removed during compile time and it just becomes
>int*x to the compiler.
>*
>Which way do you prefer?*

I second that A is the only logical one, because int* is actually a type.

int* x, y; yelds non-intuitive results.. and it's not the only place where =
the language does that.

Cheers,
Mario

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