People have been arguing about where the asterisk should be for a very long time. The main counter-argument to the construction you used is that multiple variab

People have been arguing about where the asterisk should be for a very long time. The main counter-argument to the construction you used is that multiple variable declaration immediately looks ugly given the current rules of C variable declaration: int* a,* b; // ?? And that's usually why most C style guidelines use int *a, *b; Now, if we treated "int<asterisk>" as the full type name in the syntax then you get a much nicer result: int* a, b; // much nicer! Though that does have its own tradeoffs. But that would require actually changing the C syntax, at which point you might as well make it the postfix syntax: var a, b int*;