That avoids bugs and misunderstandings, too. You know this, but for those unaware, in the previous example, x is not initialized to 3. Similarly, in "int* p1,

That avoids bugs and misunderstandings, too. You know this, but for those unaware, in the previous example, x is not initialized to 3. Similarly, in "int* p1, p2;", p2 is an int, not an int*. Easy to misread.