type *var -- vs. -- type* var

[Karl Heuer]

In article <4201 at ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> SMITHJ at 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 at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint