Slacy’s Blog

No, there is not a space after the *. Take a look at this example:

value = *pointer;

Note how there’s not a space after the asterisk. Also note how the type of “value” and the type of “*pointer” are the same.

Thus, when you declare these variables, you should do it like this:

Type value;
Type *pointer;

value = *pointer;

Why would you ever want to put the asterisk next to the type name? Why would that ever make sense? I just don’t get it!