* is a right-to-left associative operator

[Coeur]

In C and Objective-C, the operator * is a right-to-left associative operator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C++#Operator_precedence

Which means it should be next to the right element, not the left element. And easy way to understand the issue:

char* a, b;

As * is a right-to-left associative operator, * applies to a, not char and we have:

• a is an array of char
• b is a char, not an array of char

To make it easier to apprehend, and to avoid mistakes when we want twice the same type, we should have:

char *a, *b;

Right-to-left associativity for * is the same as the one for !. And you don't write:

BOOL p =! q;

You write:

BOOL p = !q;

[agrieve]

Thanks for having a look at our code, but we make a conscious decision to avoid style-related changes.