FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: coding style

["François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>]

> Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > > * use "char* variable" instead of "char *variable" in C++ code
> > I think "char *variable" is better, because if you write "char*
> > variable1, variable2" can be confusing (variable2 isn't a pointer).
>
> That's easy to solve: just don't use that anymore :-)
> The reason for putting the '*' to the type is that it is actually
> part
> of the type, not of the variable name; I would even consider the
> outcome of "char* a, b" a bug in the language grammar.
>

Not if you read it as "the type of *a (dereference of a) is char",
which is consistent with b. It's like I always understood it.

François.