"weaselcat" <weasel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 01:24:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: >> On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 23:49:26 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: >>> I actually think that there are two large categories of >>> programmers: those like writing the same loops over and over >>> again and those who use algorithms. >> >> I agree, at some point I learned that there is a huge cultural > >> distinction between C and C++ programmers. > > yes, the other main distinction are the people who correctly put the * > next to the type because it's part of the type, or the wrong people who > put it next to the variable name because they're heathens
One could argue that in the declaration: int *a; the type of *a is int. So it's not a pointer type but a dereference operator. That actually similar to how patterns work in modern programming languages. Tobi