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Following usual C convention for declarations, declaration follows use, and the <code>*</code> in a pointer is written on the pointer, indicating [[dereferencing]]. For example, in the declaration <code>int *ptr</code>, the dereferenced form <code>*ptr</code> is an <code>int</code>, while the reference form <code>ptr</code> is a pointer to an <code>int</code>. Thus <code>const</code> modifies the ''name'' to its right. The C++ convention is instead to associate the <code>*</code> with the type, as in <code>int* ptr,</code> and read the <code>const</code> as modifying the ''type'' to the left. <code>int const * ptrToConst</code> can thus be read as "<code>*ptrToConst</code> is a <code>int const</code>" (the value is constant), or "<code>ptrToConst</code> is a <code>int const *</code>" (the pointer is a pointer to a constant integer). Thus:
<syntaxhighlight lang=c>
int *ptr; // *ptr is an int value
int const *ptrToConst; // *ptrToConst is a constant (int: integer value)
int * const constPtr; // constPtr is a constant (int *: integer pointer)
int const * const constPtrToConst; // constPtrToConst is a constant (pointer)
// as is *constPtrToConst (value)
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