On 5 October 2012 22:00, Electron <electron2k4@infinito.it> wrote:

> >It also appears that in C++, the most common preference is type A
> (asterisk
> >close to the type). Boost (peer reviewed C++ library) uses that form, an=
d
> >if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.
>
> Yes, if the focus is the type, then the type is certainly "int*".
>
> The focus may be anything else one wishes, of course, but if I declare
> multiple
> variables at once by first saying what type they are, and then the names
> of the
> variables, like:
>
> int* a, b, c, d;
>
> all of them oughta be of type "int*".
>

I am not arguing here, just saying that the type is the pointer or '*' in
C. The mark 'int' is needed by the pointer arithmetic and to casting the
memory selected by the pointer. That's why it makes perfect sense to me to
use the version B 'int *a, *b, *c;' notation.

By the way, we always can create our own type, so maybe what OP is looking
for is something like:

    typedef int* pInt;
    pInt d,e,f;

Tamas



>
> Diclaimer: I have designed two programming languages (for my own use) and
> wrote
> optimizing compilers for them (real languages, not toys), so my opinion
> may be biased.
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>
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