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0 pointsKoshkin5y ago0 comments

The reason the asterisk naturally "sticks to" the name is simply the possibility to write a series of declarations like this:

    int a, *b, (*c)(int);

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kaba05y ago

Which is a questionable saving of 2 lines and a few characters in a language where huge repetitions are a given, due to lack of templates/generics whatever.

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