type *var -- vs. -- type* var

[SMITHJ at ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu]

I have been learning C++ from a book by Bjarne and he consistently declares
pointers with
	type* var;
rather than
	type *var;
At first I thought it was a C++ extension but when I tried it on my VAX/VMS
compiler it accepted the latter.  Why is this allowed?  It would be nice to
use type* to declare a series of pointers but this notation currently just
names the first var a pointer and the rest a regular variables.
i.e.
	int* x, y, z;
is equivalent to
	int *x, y, z;
rather than
	int *x, *y, *z;
as would be intuitive (to me anyway).

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