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From: "Dennis Weldy" <nojunkmail@ever.com>
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/25
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int * p = NULL ;

the * comes before the variable name. I've defined an int pointer

 p = new int ;
 *p = 10 ;

the * comes before the variable name. I'm using the int pointed to by p.

Have I missed something?

Dennis

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote in message <3479FD07.2934@gsg.eds.com>...
>Dennis Weldy wrote:
>
>> >Well, I was thinking of the use of * both for defining pointers and for
>> >dereferencing them.
>>
>> I've always thought htat made sense: the declaraction matches use.
>
>N, they don't; the order is different.
>
>> Or do you object to using [] for the declaration of arrays, and for
indexing
>> into the array as well? ;-)
>
>No, because there it's consistent.
>
>
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