Hello the list, There are two ways of writing pointer declarations:
Foo *foo; Foo* foo; Our coding conventions currently recommend the former, but I have recently been convinced that the latter is preferable. The rationale that we have for preferring the former is that it avoids ambiguity in cases like this: Foo *foo, bar; This makes it clear that foo is a pointer, while bar is not. This would not be so clear in: Foo* foo, bar; Our coding conventions, however, prohibit this form of declaration, which eliminates the benefit of this. The rationale for the other form is simpler: the * is an attribute of the type, not an attribute of the variable. This means that it's more consistent. We'd write Foo* everywhere: in variable declaration, return types, arguments, and cast expressions. Thoughts / comments? David -- Sent from my Cray X1 _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
