On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Tamas Rudnai wrote= : > 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 t= o > use the version B 'int *a, *b, *c;' notation. > > By the way, we always can create our own type, so maybe what OP is lookin= g > for is something like: > > typedef int* pInt; > pInt d,e,f; > > I'm not really "looking for" a new type. I'm just the type of guy who needs to settle on a standard before I write 100 000 lines of code based on it. It helps me sleep at night knowing that my asterisks are aligned correctly, you know? In either case, I'm sold on the type A (asterisk near the type) style, since boost (http://boost.org) with 18 million+ lines of code is using it. So I'm not the only one who likes it. As I said, it helps me sleep at night= .. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .