Re: Newbie pointer question

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From: LeRoy Baxter
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 03:49

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vashist@tcsmgmt.com (Vashist Worah) wrote:
>This may seem trivial to veterans here, but I am trying to figure out 
>what in the world is the difference in declaring pointers in the two 
>different manners illustrated below (VC++ 2.2):
>
>1)	double*  x
>2)	double  *x
>
>Of course, referencing pointers in the manner
>	*x
>yields the value of the variable whose address is stored in the pointer 
>x.
>Thanks!
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Vashist Worah        




Simply convention.
 style 2 is C convention
 style 1 is C++ convention. I believe the thought is that "double*"
   more acurately describes the type (pointer) of "x" (the variables'
   name)

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