Wait, C programmers now put the star on the left hand side?
char* thing; // good
char *thing; // bad
This ... is awesome. As a C++ "native" I've always found the "star on the right" thing to be really horribly confusing.
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I mean, one can reasonably argue that C & C++ declarator syntax is itself horribly confusing because it doesn't read left-to-right. But it is what it is, so why pretend that it's something else?