Getting Zero Befuddlement from Pointer Declarations

Setting the Better Naming Scheme

The most confusion-free way to declare pointers is to separate spaces for every element in the declaration, including the *. Examples:

• const * double a
• unsigned long long * const b
• int * c
• static double * a

Reading from Right to Left

Now that we’ve separated these things, reading them from right to left makes everything clear as day. Before, things like const double * a and double * const a seem very much like the same, but reading from right to left will differentiate them:

const double * a is a pointer a that points to a const double double * const a is a const pointer a that points to a double

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